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Under the university's rosy rescue proposal, the Chelsea system will provide extensive social services for children as well as a rigorous education. While B.U. teaching interns would receive course credits for their stints at the blackboard, degree candidates in nursing and dentistry would oversee medical and nutrition programs for preschoolers. B.U. social workers would visit the homes of troubled students to help address problems affecting their school performance. Other plans include a top-to-bottom overhaul of the curriculum and increases in teacher salaries, now among the lowest in the state...
...Mavimbela's ambition is to go to college. Of all the Sarafina! cast, he is the most faithful in attending thrice-weekly after-hours classes held at Martin Luther King Jr. High School. On a recent afternoon, he was at the blackboard trying to figure out fractions. "Which one is the numerator?" the teacher asked. He pointed to it and then, on cue, to the dividend, the quotient, the remainder, the divisor, the denominator. His fellow cast members gazed intently at the blackboard chalked full of figures. On the wall was a poster from another Broadway play, For Colored Girls...
...find out have made Fermat's Last Theorem the El Dorado of math problems. Now, at long last, an assistant professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University seems to have broken the code. Last month at Bonn's Max Planck Institute, Yoichi Miyaoka, 38, sketched out his answer on a blackboard for fellow mathematicians...
Clearly, discussions of Clark's approach to taming the blackboard jungle run high with emotion. Cooler-headed critics -- and fans -- suggest that the best ( method of evaluating what he or any other educator has done is to look at the achievements of his students. In Clark's case the record is mixed. No question that he cleaned up the graffiti, kicked out the pushers, restored order. But academic triumphs have been more elusive. While math scores are up 6% during Clark's reign, reading scores have barely budged: they remain in the bottom third of the nation's high school...
...network's most vexing problems. While the news division's past efforts were considered too staid to become widely popular, The Morning Program had the opposite trouble. Hartley's awkward one-liners and forced banter were particularly grating. "It was like screeching nails against a blackboard," says Steve Friedman, former executive producer of Today and one of The Morning Program's most enthusiastic detractors...