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...Department rebuttal says the institute has mixed "apples, oranges and moonbeams to produce an indigestible concoction." By measuring education spending as a percentage of national income instead of comparing dollars spent, it says, E.P.I. uses a methodology that is "seriously flawed." But the study does, in fact, compare per pupil expenditures as well. Result: the U.S. comes in ninth out of 16. "No matter how you do it, we're a low spender," says Lawrence Mishel, co-author of the report. "We're definitely not as Bush claims. We don't spend lavishly on our kids...
Perhaps most tragically, Hochschild tells of children torn apart by marital bitterness over housework. In one extreme example, a child's teacher reported that her pupil had no friends at all. The reason:her parents would not allow any other children to visit the home because they were too busy with their work...
...Shakespeare's plays. Famous, and rather vulgar. If Raphael was the epitome of grace among artists of the High Renaissance and Michelangelo the paragon of sublimity, then Giulio was all licentious facility. So ran the judgment of our Victorian forebears, who could not quite forgive Raphael's best pupil for his indelicacy. An air of brilliant second- rateness still clings to his name. Those who can thrust their way through the crowds in Palazzo Te in Mantua and manage a long look at the enormous Giulio Romano show that has been the city's main event this fall (it closes...
...forest to make garments called thneeds, and Dr. Seuss urges, "Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack." Bailey's husband Bill, it turns out, is a logging-equipment wholesaler. After his son read the book, says Bill, he "came home and labeled me a criminal." One pupil was said to have burst into tears when he saw his father pruning an apple tree, supposing he was trying to cut it down...
...sponsored A Nation at Risk report warned of a "rising tide of mediocrity" in U.S. schools, average combined scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) have risen only slightly, from 893 to 904. Despite a 46% jump in the average amount that local, state and federal governments spend per pupil, the percentage of high school students who graduate has actually dropped, from 73.3% to 71.1%. "We are standing still," Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos said in May, as he unveiled a report showing a tenacious lack of progress in public education...