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...Both Governors hope to soften the blow of the new levies by lowering sales taxes. McWherter, a Democrat re-elected last fall, has also made the plan more palatable by promising to channel the new revenue toward education in a state that currently ranks near the bottom in per-pupil expenditure...
...Sylvia was my pupil in high school math, and now I'm her pupil in physical education," says Renna, who participates in the exercises with her two sisters. "She's a much better teacher...
...dividend from such bureaucratic cuts, to be sent to individual school districts, may not necessarily aid public education. Several studies have indicated that educational performance doesn't always improve as more money is spent on each pupil...
There are troubling touches of xenophobia at Dzerzhinsky. "I don't think it's right when the Vietnamese here get so many motorcycles and we don't have any left to buy," says one pupil, prompting exclamations of "Fidschi!", a derogatory term for Vietnamese guest workers, from the back of the room. No one seems to know that the Vietnamese, under an agreement between East Berlin and Hanoi, get half their wages in the form of goods, including motorcycles and bikes, which they can ship to their families back home...
Although teachers who have used Kumon are generally enthusiastic about the results, a few question the value of the repetitious system, with its heavy emphasis on the mechanics of math. Some are unconvinced that test-score increases are attributable to Kumon, while others object to the $45-a-pupil annual cost. Shirley Frye, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, takes a balanced view. "Of course there is no panacea for teaching math," she says. "We are looking for all of the methods that will help make students successful." Kumon certainly seems to be one of them...