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There is no way to know whether more female teachers are having relationships with young male students or whether more are simply being reported. But as these cases make clear, inappropriate teacher-pupil relationships are not rare. According to Charol Shakeshaft, a professor of foundations, leadership and policy studies at Hofstra University, sexual misconduct is the top reason teaching licenses are revoked. "About 10% of kids report that sometime during K to 12, they have been the target of some form of educator sexual misconduct, and about 7% report physical sexual misconduct," she says. "About one-third of those cases...
DIED. RAY MEYER, 92, avuncular basketball coach who led DePaul University to 724 wins from 1942 to '84; in Wheeling, Ill. The Hall of Famer's prize pupil was 6-ft. 10-in. George Mikan, who, under Meyer's tutelage in the '40s, morphed into basketball's first great...
...Lucas had done was perfect the modern blockbuster and create the first major special-effects company (ILM) and the first digital-animation outfit (which became Pixar). He changed the way movies were made and marketed. Now the richest, most influential maker of movies had found in Rodriguez an apt pupil, another "regional" filmmaker who could buck the system...
...fiscal year, CPS spent an average of $13,363 per student on regular education, which is the eighth highest spending per student in the state of Massachusetts. Nationally, public schools spend an average of $8,208 per pupil, according to the National Education Association’s Fall 2004 Report of School Statistics Update...
...capacity as mayor, also chairs the Cambridge school committee—says he wants to make the Cambridge schools a top priority. He describes the system as “an embarrassment of riches,” noting that the City spends over $20,000 per pupil only to see results lag behind those of systems that spend less than half that amount. “We still have a group of...working-class kids that we don’t do well enough by,” Reeves says. The mayor adds he hopes to close this...