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...Child is not just about money, most experts agree. The Federal Government pays only about 8% of schooling costs. So changing the federal contibution has only so much impact. In fact, money--from any source--is not a panacea. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. has tripled per-pupil spending in constant dollars, to roughly $10,800 a child, more than almost any other nation. And yet it gets average or below-average results compared with other First World countries...
...smile when the opposition blew a big lead. He was not much on irony; that his base-stealing records were surpassed by three black men, Wills, Lou Brock and Rickey Henderson, would not have amused him. Nor did he appreciate a generous anecdote told about him by a batting pupil. In 1960 Lefty O'Doul was asked, "What do you think Cobb would hit today?" The old outfielder guessed, "Oh, maybe .340." Then why do you say Cobb was so great when he could only hit .340 with this lively ball? O'Doul thought about it. "Well, you have...
...most unusual gift, if not his largest, was a guarantee of college tuition for 61 pupils at P.S. 121. Lang was making a sentimental visit to his old school, and in the middle of what he recalls as a paralyzingly dull, rehearsed speech to the graduating sixth grade, the inspiration came to him. Suddenly he broke off and told the astounded youngsters that he would give them each $2,000 toward college tuition, with more where that came from, if they stuck with their books and finished school. Later he followed with a letter to every pupil, declaring "I will...
...Florida's 3 million seniors have a special reputation, fair or not, for excluding kids from their voting agendas as well as their condominium complexes. It's one reason the state, whose per capita income is in the nation's top half, ranks in the bottom 10 in per-pupil public-education spending. Nationally, America's elderly reap seven times as many federal dollars per capita as do children, who suffer twice the poverty rate. But with Florida's youth population growing at a faster rate than that of the elderly, many seniors are forging what some call a "partnership...
...perhaps the biggest difference resulting from the move, Buckland has found himself the willing pupil of one of the sport’s most legendary coaches, Harvard’s Harry Parker...