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...viewing the current memorial exhibit from his collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The memorial could not be better hung nor more appropriately placed: not only was he one of the Modern's seven founders; he also hand-picked as its first director his pupil, Alfred H. Barr...
GUMMIDGE: You seek a more favorable pupil-teacher ratio, plus a decentralized learning center in the multiversity...
GUMMIDGE: Perfect. See how complicated you can make things? Imagine what damage you can wreak in the schools where a situation is no longer practical, it is viable; where a pupil is no longer unmanageable, but alienated...
...arrive at their regular schools in the fall. This has led to suggestions that the program be year round, which is reasonable. But then, last month, Mr. Shriver announced yet a new proposal, Operation Keep Moving. The first point in this program is an across-the-board reduction of pupil-teacher ratios in elementary grades to that of Head Start...
...will be clear that this is an expensive proposal. The current pupil-teacher ratio in public schools is 24.6, the current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance is $532. To reduce the ratio to 15 to 1, in rough but representative terms, would require another $300 per pupil. This would represent an increase in expenditure of $1020 per year for a family with three children, or, as an example, 28.3 per cent of the median income of nonwhite families in the nation...