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...curriculum is stiff and compulsory. On the average, two mathematics courses are required in each grade (including heavy doses of geometry and algebra, plus a year or two of calculus in the final grades). And 5½ years of biology, five years each of physics and geography, four years of chemistry, one year of astronomy, ten years of shop and mechanical drawing and up to seven years of foreign language (most frequently English and French). Apart from languages, the humanities are largely taken up with the detailed study of Marxism-Leninism. Zoya Malkova, the director of the Institute for General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Ivan and Tanya Can Read | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...opinion, looms threateningly, but the future is as gloomy as a March weather forecast even without the new law. As inflation drains the city's buying power, cutbacks in federal and state aid empty Cambridge's coffers. There are two ways out--but neither make sense in the strange algebra of American politics. An overhaul of the state's tax system would help cities by lessening dependence on the regressive local property tax and by increasing state income taxes. But before state legislators boost taxes, something will have to boost their courage. "People have been talking reform for 25 years...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Cambridge in the Red | 4/11/1980 | See Source »

...coast still innocent of condominiums, the child's interest in wild nature began. "I was a hyperactive brat," Adams recalls. He was educated at home by tutors, and he ascribes his lifelong habit of keeping meticulous records of every motif, exposure and chemical mix to an early taste for algebra. But the main obsession of his youth was music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Yosemite | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...loved the Placement Test in Math. That's because I'm an English major and never plan to take a math course. I just sat and drew little pictures of my high school algebra teachers, which I then impaled on slices of percentage pie. Of course under the new Core, you may have to take a Math course. Still it may be wise to do as badly as you can, so you can slip through with a core equivalent of Math...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Guide to Freshman Week | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...know, I was getting taller than her, and one day I let her know, 'Hey Ma I'm quitting school,' and oh boy what trouble... I wanted to do something different than that goddam algebra...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

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