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John Gilbert, Gell's high school advisor and French teacher, referred to his former pupil as "quite an amazing yound man," noting that Gell had the highest grade point average in his class--and in the school's history...
...George Voinovich, who must now balance the grievances of parents in hard-pressed rural and urban districts with the sense of entitlement of those living in more affluent suburbs. In sparsely populated Vinton County, where wages are low and property taxes unpopular (the district spends only $4,200 per pupil each year), the ruling took the form of deliverance. "This is our chance to get out," said superintendent John Simmons. But not at our expense, reply residents of manicured places like Indian Hill, where per-pupil spending nears $8,000 a year and voters have only once killed a school...
...friend William Cullen Bryant, nature poet and editor, urged him in a sonnet not to be seduced by the humanized, picturesque Europe--to "keep that earlier, wilder image bright." After Cole's early death, that image was to get wilder and brighter still in the work of his only pupil, Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900). Descended from six generations of Yankee ministers and merchants, patriotic and deeply religious, Church inherited Cole's belief in a style of landscape suffused with "a language strong, moral and imaginative." His paintings--mostly of the Hudson Valley and vistas of South American grandeur--were...
Weil's pot studies, like his Leary-Alpert expose, quickly made national news, owing in no small part to the kindly conclusions he reached about the contraband plant. "Marijuana did appear to raise heart rate," Weil says, "but it didn't seem to affect pupil size or blood sugar. More important, it didn't really impair performance, at least in people who had some experience with it. It seemed to be a rather mild intoxicant...
...King School receives more funding per pupil but its students score worse on state-wide math and reading tests. Two-thirds of its students are from minority groups; 60 percent receive free or reduced-cost school lunches...