Word: berkeley
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...school system in which math, science and reading are taught through abstractions that, in the words of one expert, are "void of the complexities of the real world and thus irrelevant and even boring." The results can sometimes be ludicrous. Alan Schoenfeld, an expert on math education at Berkeley, notes that students characteristically answer "seven buses remainder ten" when asked how many 35-passenger buses are needed to transport 255 students. In practical terms, of course, the answer is eight, since the remaining ten students will need another...
...Berkeley Professor Mario Varrera agrees, saying "it makes a big difference to have your own curriculum and funding. It allows you to develop a kind of coherence that is not possible otherwise...
Individual student complaints of anti-Asian-American discrimination have brought limited investigations to Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley and Yale...
Forman will study Public Health and Public Policy at Cal-Berkeley, and teach volleyball in a community league...
...Berkeley, they play pick-up volleyball games like they play pick-up basketball here," Forman says...