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GUMMIDGE: You seek a more favorable pupil-teacher ratio, plus a decentralized learning center in the multiversity...
...will be clear that this is an expensive proposal. The current pupil-teacher ratio in public schools is 24.6, the current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance is $532. To reduce the ratio to 15 to 1, in rough but representative terms, would require another $300 per pupil. This would represent an increase in expenditure of $1020 per year for a family with three children, or, as an example, 28.3 per cent of the median income of nonwhite families in the nation...
This past summer the Office of Education released its study, "Equality of Educational Opportunity" by Professor James Coleman, perhaps the second largest social science research project in history, which came to identical conclusions, stated as follows: "Some facilities measures, such as the pupil/teacher ratio...showed a consistent lack of relation to achievement among all groups under all conditions...
...restrained and unvitriolic manner McCarthy discussed some of the moral issues involved in the war. He objected especially to the high ratio of civilian to military casualties in Vietnam. This is due partly to the new weapons we are using and partly to the new ways we are using old weapons, McCarthy said...
Given the desperate shortage of nurses in this country, the over-staffing of nurses at Stillman infirmary is unconscionable. The average daytime nurse-patient ratio at Stillman is 1:8 in contrast, for example, to 1:13 at Boston City Hospital where medical problems are much more serious. (Among the less educated and poor, people often do not go to a hospital until in or near critical condition). If this difference in ratio were fully reflected in a difference in medical care it might be justifiable, but many of Stillman's nurse-hours are employed making beds, serving cookies, filling...