Word: ratio
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...plan would allow cities which have inadequate funds to share costs with the federal government on a one third to two thirds ratio. This would leave room for local initiative and private enterprise...
While the Democrats retained control of both houses, they lost the two-thirds margins needed to override a gubernatorial veto. The previous senate line-up favored the Democrats 37-11; the new ratio will be 28-20. In the Florida house, which was expanded by two seats, the balance shifted from...
...number of Americans fallen on the battlefields of Viet Nam since 1961, compared with 187,000 Communists killed. Last week the enemy toll jumped further when 581 Viet Cong were killed in a fierce battle with U.S. troops in War Zone C. The U.S. lost eleven infantrymen-a ratio of 53 enemy dead for every American death...
Even when aging structures are replaced by ultramodern schools, minority groups continue to complain. Last fall, the school board formally opened the all-new, air-conditioned Intermediate School 201 in East Harlem, which featured a low teacher-student ratio and special tutorial help. Outraged that it was not fully integrated, Negro neighborhood leaders ordered a boycott, kept it closed for five days, demanded that the board provide an all-Negro teaching staff. Since then, unruly students have reflected their parents' pique by disrupting classes, committing wanton acts of vandalism. This month, the embattled white principal, Stanley R. Lisser, quit...
...quality. In a new survey of 2,024 schools, Conant reports that 40.3% now give courses in calculus, 49.5% teach the new physics, 92% offer remedial classes for lower-ability students, 99% offer music. Even more significant, about half of the schools have a 20-to-1 student-teacher ratio-a standard that Conant considers basic. On the other hand, he finds that only 11% of the schools make use of television and that more than 60% are too small (fewer than 750 students) to be efficient. Although "considerable progress" has been made, Conant sums up, "American education...