Word: pupills
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Beyond such homely practicality lies a reawakened national concern for some faded educational verities, among them the close teacher-pupil contact that was much in evidence last week at Lennep. There, beneath pictures of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Carol Sevalstad, 33, glided through the mellow buzz of a dozen children in six grades. When Lee Cavender tripped over his second-grade arithmetic game on Lennep's computer, Sevalstad untangled him. Then she turned to a Lilliputian table where two first graders were hard at their reading. "I want to spend a lot of time on reading with the first...
...controversial. Miriam Rosenberg, government-relations specialist for the National Parent Teacher Association, called Bennett's proposal an "inappropriate and possibly unconstitutional transfer of public tax dollars to private and especially private religious schools." Others argued that $600 would not go far toward private day-school tuition or even the pupil cost in an upscale suburban school (typically...
Meanwhile, it seems, the class of '55 has struck once more. This June, Charles Black will leave Yale's Sterling professorship to take up a teaching job at Columbia under a new boss. Yes, it's his former pupil, Dean Barbara Black...
...Infirmary in Boston, "it's rare that we don't have a patient in the hospital with one on any given day." In a small number of cases, the wearers develop severe ulcers and scarring of the cornea, the transparent layer of cells stretching over the pupil and the iris, or colored part of the eye. Last year Dr. Donald Doughman of the University of Minnesota treated six patients for serious infections. Some of them may require corneal transplants to restore their vision, he says. "We just feel lucky that no one lost...
MARRIED. MARY KAY LETOURNEAU, 43, former elementary school teacher who served 7 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to the second-degree child rape of her former sixth-grade student, despite claims from both that they were in love; to VILI FUALAAU, 22, the ex-pupil, with whom she has two children; at a winery in Woodinville, Wash...