Word: math
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...agenda in hundreds of school districts across the country. Statistics only sketch out the dimensions of the turnaround. Over the past three years, 53% of the 16,000 school districts nationwide have increased the number of credits they require in such core subjects as English, science and math; 38% more will upgrade their standards by 1985. During this same period, 69% of school systems have launched efforts to increase daily attendance. No fewer than 20 states have passed tougher certification laws, with the goal of making sure that a teacher has mastered basic skills before ever entering a classroom...
...things, a national $4.5 billion fund for excellence that would grant sums to schools to help them improve instruction. Senator Ernest Rollings wants $ 14 billion, in part to give certain qualified public school teachers $5,000 raises. Senator John Glenn's $4 billion plan would include loans to math and science majors that would be forgiven for students who go on to teach those subjects...
...improve teacher pay and to implement compulsory attendance for the first time since the 1950s. Florida Governor Bob Graham's $228 million school-reform package, passed in June, will toughen student requirements, provide summer institutes for classroom teachers, buy computers for classes, and provide money to attract math and science teachers. Governor James Hunt of North Carolina, who led the Task Force on Education for Economic Growth and who has done part-time teaching during his gubernatorial tenure, has spearheaded everything from an elementary school reading program to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a public boarding...
Chemistry 20a, "Organic Chemistry," Math la, "Introduction to Calculus," and Computer Science 11, "Computers. Algorithms, and Programs" and a host of other science classes also returned to their perennial positions among the College's top 15 classes, announced yesterday by the Registrar's office...
...mastered the monster, and later began selling his schoolmates a four-page, mimeographed tip sheet for 450. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob of Vaseline on the mechanism"). With 250,000 copies of the cubist's book in print, a Penguin executive marvels: "It's the biggest, runaway, immediate success we have had since we published...