Word: pupills
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Zhang's fine features and delicate voice should not be mistaken for frailty. She has a maturity, a sense of purpose, beyond her years--and a steely determination. "The first thing I have to do is learn English," says this star pupil who is ready to become an international star...
...Zhang's fine features and delicate voice should not be mistaken for frailty. She has a maturity, a sense of purpose, beyond her years - and a steely determination. "The first thing I have to do is learn English," says this star pupil who is ready to become an international star...
...architects of Cleveland's program counter that city parents are in no way encouraged to send their kids to religious schools. Parents can choose public magnet or charter schools, which are free and get far more funding per pupil than voucher schools. For this reason, says Clint Bolick, lead lawyer for a group of parents defending the program, "there's actually a disincentive to choose the voucher schools." Bolick argues that if you include magnet and charter schools in the equation, only 16.5% of parents who exercise educational choice send their kids to religious schools...
School committee member Alfred B. Fantini calls the test scores a "wake-up call" and says he is frustrated that, despite vast amounts of data and resources committed to lowering class size and hiring teachers aides, test scores continue languishing. Cambridge has the highest per-pupil spending in the state--nearly $15,000 per student--but the money is not yielding results...
Class is in session, so enter quietly. Star pupil Mark Alexander, who didn't have so much as a room to sleep in until his demolition-site buddy hooked him up a few months ago, is hitting the instructor with rapid-fire questions about "the syntax to set up command encapsulation PPP" and how many "classes of LCP frames" there are. "It's not simple stuff," Alexander explains. "These are abstract concepts. You have to meditate on them...