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...imposing our culture on others. Granted, democracy and sustained economic growth did arrive earlier in North America and Western Europe than in other parts of the world. But Western societies have also adopted innovations that originated elsewhere, including from the Middle East—everything from Algebra to agriculture. Few would claim that the spread of farming and the quadratic equation represents “Mesopotamiazation.” Why should democracy and mass literacy be any less universally applicable? Indeed, the 2003 AHDR found that Arabs are more likely to agree with the statement “democracy...
Occasionally, MIT students also take math courses that are only offered at Harvard, such as Mathematics 55, “Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra,” which has one MIT student in a class of 18 this year...
...Please don’t tell a soul that I said this, but I honestly think the only reason I got the grades Princeton required was because throughout the algebra and the Latin and the Romantic poets, the thing that kept me going was the thought of the oxygen facials you could get in New York,” Sykes’ protagonist admits...
Among other concepts, the report indicates that students should know multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, probability and statistics and some computer science...
...changes to the quantitative reasoning and critical reading section of the exam will also do nothing to fix the problems associated with the socio-economic bias of the SAT. Incorporating Algebra II will unfairly benefit those students who have had the educational opportunity to study intermediate algebra and who have had access to preparatory resources and tutoring...