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Despite the outcry after Sputnik, the actual outlay of the average U.S. school district is only 1.7% more per pupil than in 1958. School Management magazine, which recently invented a "Cost of Education Index," reported last week that the average district puts out 10.1% more in dollars than in 1958, but school costs have risen 8.4%. And some areas are spending less in real dollars for education than at the time Sputnik soared and critics roared...
...United States has provided only 70,000 a year; teachers' salaries are deplorably low and the profession has been unable to attract an adequate number of men and women to handle the increasing school population. The Kennedy Administration must ask for an annual Federal expenditure of $30 per pupil, and add to this sum another $20 per pupil in those low-income states which have very little of their own money to spend on education. The total cost each year would be around $1.4 billion, higher than last year's most ambitious proposal, the Murray-Metcalf bill...
...opera got a mixed reception but obviously held its audience. It also breathed new life into the career of Composer Zillig, 55, a pupil of Schoenberg's who was once regarded as one of Germany's major talents. Other West German stages have already signed to produce Sacrifice, and next season it may be presented in London, penguins...
...fine administrator, Freeman took good care of the state's lagging education and welfare programs; in five years he spent $27 million on college buildings, added 1,500 beds to state mental hospitals, increased state aid to local school districts by $50 per pupil. But Fair Dealer Freeman also pushed property taxes to an alltime state high, ran into trouble last year with the normally cooperative legislature when he tried to install pay-as-you-go income taxes. G.O.P. opponents made much of the tax fight and chided Freeman's poor judgment in sending state militia to close...
Push and Pull. Romance faded but inspiration remained. Almost immediately, he began to attract attention. He became the pupil of Hans Hofmann, dean of the uninhibited "push and pull" technique. But no sooner was Rivers safely launched as a promising abstract expressionist than boredom...