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...When a person says she wants to give up a powerful job to spend more time with her family, it is usually a laugh line. Few do so voluntarily, but Hughes' explanation rang true for reporters who had watched her try to tutor her son Robert, now 15, in algebra on the campaign plane or had tracked her down by cell phone in the bleachers at one of his baseball games. It was clear that the former Army brat was never comfortable with having hauled her family to Washington. When Condoleezza Rice woke her at 5:15 one morning...
...stands, tests only material that virtually all high school students are guaranteed to have covered by their junior year. Adding questions in more advanced topics, such as trigonometry or calculus, would only widen the disparity between students of different educational opportunities. At present, students with knowledge of geometry and algebra can take the exam with an emphasis more on problem solving than mastery of multiple disciplines of mathematics, which some may never have learned. Instead, to widen the the distribution of math scores, questions should be more complex—without requiring mastery of any new material...
...Granada. Over those centuries they bequeathed the Spanish their distinctive pronunciation of the letter J as well as masterpieces of Moorish architecture. The Islamic scholars Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd reintroduced Greek philosophy to the West during the Middle Ages, while Arab mathematicians revolutionized science with the invention of algebra. And when the Ottoman armies pushed west through the Balkan peninsula in the 14th century, they established Muslim communities in Central Europe that still exist today...
...thus far steep growth of home schooling does have limits, as it takes a galactic commitment of time and money and patience for a parent to spend all day, every day, relearning algebra (or getting it for the first time) and then teaching it. It's fair to assume that a majority of parents won't want to give up those delightfully quiet hours when the kids are at school. The softening economy may also begin to thin the ranks of home schoolers, many of whom are middle-class families that can't afford private schools; if stay-at-home...
...simplicity of their ideas will encourage others to join in the crusade to make this world a better place. An inspiring example is Bob Moses, the math teacher who traveled to Mississippi from Cambridge, Mass., to prepare high school students for college-prep math courses by teaching them algebra. It doesn't take a multimillion-dollar contract to make a hero. MICHAEL L. RUIVIVAR Horsham...