Word: math
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State's Project Overcome, which carefully guided 50 teenagers, about one-third of them Negroes, through two pleasant summers in Bellingham before inviting them to join the 5,400 regular students on campus last fall. After the cozy summer tutoring in such basic subjects as reading, history and math, most of the 50 panicked amid the confusion of registration and the difficulty of lengthy reading assignments. An Indian girl took one look at the teeming campus, grabbed the next bus to her home in Yakima, 234 miles away, and had to be coaxed back. The group's first...
They are all part of Challenge, a Phillips Brooks House program that works with underachieving boys in the sixth through ninth grades of the Cambridge schools. The program offers three hour sessions twice weekly with the time equally divided among English, Math, and an elective. The program hopes to give the boys the motivation and skills to improve their school performance and eventually get them into college. Started three years ago on the model of the Ulysses S. Grant program at Yale, Challenge has grown to include 60 students and 25 Harvard teachers...
...drive to make the program flexible has raised problems. Without a set program, some teachers feel a bit lost. Many in math are uncertain whether to focus on material directly related to school or to conduct an enrichment program. Since each class ends up learning different things, the program has no continuity from year to year...
...scholar ships, a National Merit Scholarship and an Illinois State Scholarship, will pay him a total of $2,500 a year. George credits much of his success to Parker Teacher Frank Ragland, who set up a non-credit "special activities" class for 30 students, drilled them on math and vocabulary. "He worked us to death," recalls George. "He also told us how things were opening up for Negro students in universities. We doubted him at first-but everything turned out to be true...
...median College Board Scores for the class are 680 in verbal and 710 in math -- a level which has varied little over the past few years. "The scores have remained constant at least partly because of our efforts to get students from rural areas and urban slums; they don't score as well as those from suburbia," Smith said...