Word: pupil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...endowed with a nearly perfect memory, he could take a score to bed with him, study it, and play it in the morning. His teacher was a very Prussian octogenarian named Frederick Zech, formerly professor of music at the conservatory in Potsdam. "He was a great disciplinarian," recalls the pupil. "He turned me from a Sloppy Joe into a good technician. If it hadn't been for that, I don't know what would have taken its place." But the effect of music on his later photography went deeper than inculcating a habit of technical excellence through discipline...
...declining enrollment. Experts had been predicting a steady growth in the town for years. Besides, Joseph E. Hill, superintendent for District 65, points out: "It was something we did not like, so we were reluctant to meet it head on." But last fall, after making a rough forecast of pupil population by counting birth records at local hospitals, the district faced up to a grim conclusion: the present total of 8,000 students, already down 3,000 from the 1968 record of 11,000, would drop to 6,000 in five years. At the same time, townspeople voted down...
From the day he entered first grade, blue-eyed Tommy Irwin was called a "behavior problem"-a disobedient pupil who did shoddy work. But after his third-grade teacher told the Irwins that their son had a "learning disability," they hired an educational psychologist who tested Tommy. The conclusion: Tommy was not too slow but too quick for the classroom routine. His IQ was a very elevated 169. "He was frustrated and bored to tears," observes his father, Attorney Ronald Irwin. Now the Irwins are suing Illinois' McHenry County School District for damages of $1 million, seeking a legal...
...every dreary or rambunctious pupil is a genius, by any means. About 3% of the nation's students are thought to be gifted, measured either by intelligence tests or a special flair for subjects such as mathematics or foreign languages. Special programs for gifted students receive only token funding compared with programs for the handicapped and disadvantaged. Illinois, for example, spends $740 per child to educate its 220,000 handicapped, but only $40 per child for its approximately 70,000 gifted students. The disparity is largely due to the notion that the gifted will flourish on their...
...method be devised to grade teachers as well. His object is to pinpoint problem schools. James has also proposed diverting $70 million from the state's sprawling, 58-campus higher education system to elementary and secondary schools; Alabama now ranks 47th in the nation in expenditures per pupil...