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SIUERRALEONE Following a Government syllabus as an instruction guide, teachers will teach approximately 25 hours a week in one of the following areas: math, science, geography, history, home economics, agriculture, art, English, French, music, business, libray science, physical education...
Volunteers will teach math, science, English, social studies and business throughout Liberia in junior and senior high schools...
...record was dramatic. According to standardized tests, the average student gained two years in reading comprehension during those six weeks. After a regimen of a composition a day most could write a decently organized four-paragraph essay. Most had a firm grasp of the basic principles of their next math course presented in the context of the new math. This preview of work to come was especially crucial for several who would be adjusting to previously all-white schools in the fall. The rapidity of this academic development-almost like time-lapse photography in students with so much potential denied...
Born. To Aye Aye Mynt U, 26, daughter of U.N. Secretary General U Thant, and Tin Mynt U, 29, Manhattan College assistant professor of math: a son, U Thant's first grandchild; in Manhattan...
Atlanta's Assistant Superintendent John Martin contends that kids in the course develop a new "pride in their scholarship," notes that math and science finally "begin to make sense to them." Roger Derthick, principal of Henry Grady High, calls it "a great motivating course." The FAA is so enthusiastic that it is permitting one of its field men to help Atlanta teachers qualify as flying instructors. Mervin Strickler Jr., director of the FAA education program, contends that "this type of course changes the attitude of youngsters toward excellence, precision and high standards-no kid is satisfied with 70% success...