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...Tongues. There were no grounds during the war for supposing that Alice's relations with her 14-year-old protégé were more than those of a dedicated teacher and a pupil in whom she recognized the spark of genius. But smalltown tongues wag easily, and Saint-Maur's gossips, titillated by frequent glimpses of Alice and Raymond strolling in deep communion by the river's edge, let their speculation run free. When Alice's poilu husband Gaston came back from the war a hero, the cheers that greeted him were mingled with many...
...absorb the increase in pupils and bring all substandard school expenditures up to the present annual average ($247 per pupil) will require another $1.2 billion...
...total of $17.1 billion will be required for all U.S. public schools to match the 1954 top outlay (by New York State, which spends $356 per year per pupil...
...growth in pupil enrollments is forcing school systems to employ increasing numbers of only partially qualified teachers, Keppel continued...
...combined elementary-high school sat in his office, trying his best to look busy. Elsewhere in the building, five teachers puttered about their empty classrooms or gathered in the corridor for leisurely chats. As the entire staff knew, its presence was a mere formality. Not a single pupil has come to school in the last eleven weeks...