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...member of a board of education, I am sure I would be tarred, feathered and run out of office if my school system spent $3,600 a pupil and SAT results were averaging only 450-480. Obviously Weston's course offerings are so extensive that students can conveniently avoid the three...
...surprising that Christian schools show impressive results. Any school with highly motivated students and 15-to-1 pupil-teacher ratios would show the same. There is no need to ascribe their success to the moralistic dogma and right-wing politics these institutions espouse...
...tend to judge military power by the rise of defense spending, Weston's parents have learned to equate quality education with regular yearly jumps in the school budget. There has never been much real pressure to hold spending in check, and budgets have ballooned accordingly. In 1980 per-pupil expenditure for operations and amortization exceeded $3,600 for the town's 1,922 schoolchildren, placing Weston in the ranks of educationally elite suburbs like Winnetka, Ill., whose New Trier East High School is widely looked upon as the best public secondary school in the country...
...Prospect Heights. A former inner-city schoolteacher, Lindstrom founded the academy in 1968 partly to oppose what he saw as creeping socialism in the public school curricula. Today, 150 students (preschool through twelfth grade) get a stiff dose of moral education and free-enterprise economics in small classes (average pupil-teacher ratio...
...Bluebeard's Castle, in a concert version-being done several times over. The Boston Symphony performed the Concerto for Orchestra, the piece it premiered in 1944. The biggest American celebration, though, was in Detroit, where 52 guest artists recently joined Conductor Antal Dorati, 74, a BartÓk pupil, for a twelve-day marathon...