Word: math
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other new programs include a month-old curriculum for training mid-career professionals who decide to retire early to become math and science teachers. Also this year a new concentration was added to train Ed-School students to develop computer software programs for school systems, especially for use in the classroom. These two new programs will enable the Ed School students to get into classrooms and to learn how to deal with kids instead of being thrown into the fray unprepared after graduation...
...years have seen rises in average SAT scores, the improvement has been by groups which are traditionally below the mean. Between 1972 and 1981, the percentage of scores in the 600 to 800 range has declined. For verbal scores, the decline has been from 11.4% to 7%. For math scores, it has been from 17.8% to 5%. Instead of trying to establish a higher maximum standard, our educational system is directed solely toward raising the minimum--an emphasis the back-to-basic drive will only underscore...
...Other investigators have learned that children whose mothers smoke have developmental reading and math difficulties, and infants have double the average number of respiratory illnesses," Lichter said...
Last week, the federal government awarded Harvard a $7.7 million contract to start the center which will enable professors, computer scientists, and other educators to determine how technology can help improve math, science and computer education in U.S. schools...
...research institute is limited to studying the use of technology in math science, and computer education. But Officials said that they hope to raise additional money to expand the center's research to the humanities...