Word: pupills
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...Lucas had done was perfect the modern blockbuster and create the first major special-effects company (ILM) and the first digital-animation outfit (which became Pixar). He changed the way movies were made and marketed. Now the richest, most influential maker of movies had found in Rodriguez an apt pupil, another "regional" filmmaker who could buck the system...
...fiscal year, CPS spent an average of $13,363 per student on regular education, which is the eighth highest spending per student in the state of Massachusetts. Nationally, public schools spend an average of $8,208 per pupil, according to the National Education Association’s Fall 2004 Report of School Statistics Update...
...capacity as mayor, also chairs the Cambridge school committee—says he wants to make the Cambridge schools a top priority. He describes the system as “an embarrassment of riches,” noting that the City spends over $20,000 per pupil only to see results lag behind those of systems that spend less than half that amount. “We still have a group of...working-class kids that we don’t do well enough by,” Reeves says. The mayor adds he hopes to close this...
...Shostakovich’s “Piano Trio N.2 in E Minor.”Gutman writes in a translated e-mail that in her Harvard recital she wants to “show and compare the Romanticism of Russian composer Arensky, pupil of Tchaikovsky, who is not well known and rarely performed, with the Romanticism of the well-known German composer Brahms.” “Shostakovich is one of my favorite composers to perform,” she writes, calling Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 “one of his most remarkable...
...said he was “shocked at the level of defensiveness” in the remarks of Walser and others, and called the defensiveness “indicative of the lack of confidence in our school system.” Although Cambridge spends around $6,000 more per pupil than most Massachusetts school systems, its public schools have recently experienced mixed success. In 2003, an accreditation group placed Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, the city’s only public high school, on probation, though it lifted that status earlier this year. —BRENDAN R. LINN