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...bring about a drastic improvement in science education in the nation's high schools in order to ensure an adequate supply of scientists in the future. Only one U.S. high-school student out of two dozen takes any physics at all, and only one out of four takes algebra...
Such emulation has great advantages. It is much easier to run a college which is only a college, not a remedial high school for promising ignoramuses. Nobody at Harvard wants to spend time teaching foreign languages, high school algebra, or punctuation, paragraphing and syntax. If these things vanish from the curriculum there is room for more advanced teaching...
...cloakroom during algebra...
...mathematics rose last fall. Biology (tenth grade) was up from 72.6% in 1954 to 75%, chemistry (eleventh grade) from 31.9% to 34.6%, and physics (twelfth grade) from 23.5% to 24.3%. But just in case anyone felt too encouraged, the OE added another figure: while the percentage of students taking algebra rose from a low of 24.6% in 1952 to 28.7% in 1956, the U.S. high school is still a long way from the 1910 figure...
Eventually he had 30 men poring over books on mathematics, electronics and TV. He made the most of his meager equipment-a radio signal tracer, an R.F. generator, an oscilloscope, a vacuum-tube voltmeter, a pile of TV parts. Self-educated in math, he taught his students algebra and trigonometry, did not hesitate to pile on the work ("Brother, I really load them"). Though some of his students had been chronic troublemakers in the prison, they soon reformed. All have been perfectly willing to spend hours each night wrestling with such assignments as: "Draw up six different parallel circuits, showing...