Word: math
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Keene is National Chairman of YAF and, like most of his colleagues, strongly opposed to student violence. He's been close to it at the University of Wisconsin; he began a workshop on anti New-Left strategy by talking about this summer's bombing of the Army Math Research building there, and of the failure of the university officials to take seriously such warnings as an article in a paper titled "Army Math Research Building: Blow it Up." "All of these things represent a pattern," Keene warned the workshop attenders. "They're not isolated incidents, no matter what anyone says...
Students who leave college because of emotional illness are over-represented in the social sciences, math, and biological sciences, and under-represented in history-economics-government...
That children trained in the new math won't know how to add or subtract by the time they get to college...
...York's better high schools. Under the new system, students may enter CUNY's nine senior colleges with an average of 80% or a rank in the top half of their class at any high school. Since low scores on reading and math tests are not held against them, the net effect is a deliberate break for those who went to poor high schools. Significantly, 50% of the students who have been admitted only as a result of open admissions are white, a fact that makes CUNY officials confident of broader public support than many critics predicted...
Dime a Dozen. Actually, the oversupply of teachers is largely confined to certain subjects. By one estimate, for example, the U.S. now has 15,000 qualified social studies teachers who cannot find jobs in their field. At the same time shortages still exist in math and science, preschool education, guidance work, industrial arts and programs for the handicapped. The changing job market may even improve teaching slightly as administrators stop hiring instructors with minimum qualifications. Says Siskiyou's Assistant Superintendent Bob Dais: "Master's degrees are a dime a dozen...