Word: pupills
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...coast is clear." Keeping kids in schools and off the streets would also help. School attendance and educational attainment levels in many deprived areas are dismal. Fort says only 38% of Sens students entering secondary school have mastered reading, writing and math. That's a severe disadvantage for any pupil, but it's worse for the children of the projects. "Many children live in broken homes or ones where neither parent has ever worked, where ambition is minimal, and intellectual activity revolves around daytime television," says Marie-Claude Vitali, founder of the Tremplin (Springboard) social association, which assists residents...
...cold Sunday night near Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, the Victoria Bar's School of Intoxication is in session. I'm an eager pupil, and at the end of the three-hour lesson on the art of mixing cocktails, I'm probably going to be saturated - with knowledge, of course. Award-winning bartender Stefan Weber knows it too, and so he cautions me and the some 40 other "students" at the bar to drink plenty of water between drinks to ward off the dreaded hangover. "I am going to lead you into the realm of intoxication," says Weber with a mischievous...
...product of testing mania or an unavoidable result of public schools' being starved for funding. But more conservative reform advocates, like Marcus Winters, a senior research associate at the Manhattan Institute, disagree. "Spending more money just has not worked," he says. "We've doubled the amount we spend per pupil since the '70s, and the problem hasn't budged...
There is no way to know whether more female teachers are having relationships with young male students or whether more are simply being reported. But as these cases make clear, inappropriate teacher-pupil relationships are not rare. According to Charol Shakeshaft, a professor of foundations, leadership and policy studies at Hofstra University, sexual misconduct is the top reason teaching licenses are revoked. "About 10% of kids report that sometime during K to 12, they have been the target of some form of educator sexual misconduct, and about 7% report physical sexual misconduct," she says. "About one-third of those cases...
DIED. RAY MEYER, 92, avuncular basketball coach who led DePaul University to 724 wins from 1942 to '84; in Wheeling, Ill. The Hall of Famer's prize pupil was 6-ft. 10-in. George Mikan, who, under Meyer's tutelage in the '40s, morphed into basketball's first great...