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...basement of Dater Junior High, just next to the boiler room and marked off by thick prison bars, school officials have crafted a fate worse than algebra class. Teachers at the school, part of the Cincinnati, Ohio, public school district, simply call it "the dungeon." Students have more descriptive -- if unprintable -- names for the small windowless cell. Though the prison bars are just painted on the cinder-block entrance, the punishment is real. Delinquent students must remain in the room -- absolutely quiet -- all day, even eating at their desks. "It's so hot and so boring," moans a seventh grader...
Reeves says the committee has implemented algebra in the middle schools, raised the first grade admission age to six, and helped to reshape inferior elementary schools...
Involved in the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program, Fronhofer taught pre-algebra, algebra and general applied math at, Waltham High School this semester, and is applying for teaching positions in Western Massachusetts and rural New York...
...seventh grade pre-algebra class, I sat next to a girl who was in the popular crowd. I didn't want her to think I was too smart--it wasn't cool to be too smart. So even though I knew all the answers on the math tests, I'd get one wrong on purpose. Just so I'd get a "97" instead of an "100." Just so I wouldn't look like a total geek...
...need math or computers to run a business," Lynch said. "I was never good in math--cosines, algebra, boy, that was tough...