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...possible savior of their children's education, at school and at home. The Yankelovich poll showed that 57% thought personal computers would enable children to read and to do arithmetic better Claims William Ridley, Control Data's vice president for education strategy: "If you want to improve youngsters one grade level in reading, our PLATO program with teacher supervision can do it up to four times faster and for 40% less expense than teachers alone...
...date techniques. One result, according to University of Chicago Mathematics Professor Izaak Wirszup, is "the drill and boredom of arithmetic taught by elementary school teachers not trained to teach modern mathematics." In Japan and East Germany, by contrast, specialized study in math begins in the sixth grade, as does study of biology and physics. Most American children still get only a year of biology in secondary school and few take any physics. Many U.S. high schools ask students to take only two years of math and one of science. Few students elect to go beyond the minimum. Says Harvard Microbiologist...
...second change approved yesterday requires for the first time that students pursuing independent study write an "analytical paper concerning the term's work." In addition, a student's advice must submit a midterm grade based on a preliminary report of the project...
...Islamabad set fire to the U.S. embassy, leading to the deaths of a U.S. Marine, a U.S. Army warrant officer and two Pakistanis. In 1978 all U.S. aid to Pakistan had been suspended because the Carter Administration believed that Pakistan was using U.S.-supplied plutonium to develop a weapons-grade nuclear capability, an allegation Zia denies (see interview). But in 1981 Congress authorized a resumption of assistance, mainly because Soviet troops had invaded Afghanistan...
Adds Bowen: "If a student is a sophomore and is still reading on a third grade level, we need to know that--to see how much time we have in working with them to build them up to the level they should be on by the time they graduate...