Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taking a long, thoughtful look at Seattle's public schools, a citizens' committee issued a report giving them generally good marks in math and science, mixed reviews on a conglomerate English program called "language arts." After a startled glance at the history setup in the city's high schools, the committee observed: "We note with regret that World History is no longer required, however valuable the course in 'Contemporary Problems' may be. It is difficult to see how students can give mature consideration to contemporary problems without background in history apart from American History." Foreign...
Required courses for four years at Bronx High are impressive: three years of math (most students take more); five years of the sciences; four years of English, four of social studies, and at least three years of Latin, Spanish, French, German or Hebrew. For students who are superior even at Bronx High, there are sterner courses in English, math and physics, biology and chemistry, leading to college admission with advanced standing. So far the students have taken everything thrown at them; last fall a tenth-grade biology class was fed a hard, one-year biology course in one semester...
...students-a third of them girls-are unashamedly unaverage; some take sly amusement in explaining to visitors that they read advanced calculus for kicks, in their spare time, and many of them are precociously sure where they are heading, e.g., "Harvard for a doctorate, then teach math." Marriage waylays most girls heading for graduate school, but a survey of both sexes a few years ago showed that 13% of the school's alumni had taken two or more years of graduate study. Not all Bronx High students go into science; Principal Taffel maintains that those...
...leave its dirty yellow brick pile (Former Principal Meister will move in with his newly founded Bronx Community College) and take over a lavish, $8,000,000 brain trainery, equipped with special labs for independent student research. Last week the joyous grind for next year's scholarships continued; Math Department Chairman Irving Dodes dismissed a class studying symbolic logic, said wearily and wonderingly: "I can't sit down without kids coming in, pestering me for advanced math books or trying to prove the impossible. It's a continual effort to keep up. Every day I go home...
Even as a preteenager, the nameless boy-narrator of Stars is the butt of his Danish schoolmates' gibes. They shrill "Cross-eyes" when he squints. At recess time, they rip off his cap and toss it into the chestnut tree. When he cannot quite make out the math problems on the blackboard and whispers questioningly to a deskmate, the teacher canes him. The boy takes this ugly-duckling treatment philosophically. He believes that his ugly-duckling family, as well as his weak eyes, is to blame...