Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.A.W. workers are thirsty to be treated as intelligent," says former personnel coordinator "Nate" Furuta. But Furuta was discouraged at first -- and American executives are still embarrassed -- by the average lack of basic educational skills among U.A.W. workers, especially in the area of simple math...
Anyone who has hired new employees or tried to retrain veteran ones is painfully aware of the problem. As much as a quarter of the American labor force -- anywhere from 20 million to 27 million adults -- lacks the basic reading, writing and math skills necessary to perform in today's increasingly complex job market. One out of every 4 teenagers drops out of high school, and of those who graduate, 1 out of every 4 has the equivalent of an eighth-grade education. How will they write, or even read, complicated production memos for robotized assembly lines? How will they...
...locals of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees started teaching basic skills to their members in the late 1960s, when a group of nurses' aides without high school degrees asked for help. Today approximately 15% of its 20,000 member-students enroll in fundamental literacy and math courses each year. "The problem was always there," says Katherine Schrier, director of the union's Education Trust Fund. "Business is just now waking...
...know he had a problem on his hands until one of his 400 employees noticed that a forklift operator took forever to count loads of lumber. A bit of digging disclosed that about 10% of the mill's workers needed help developing proficiency in math and English. So, at a cost of $15,000, Gregory asked the nearby Umpqua Community College to provide , instruction. Says he: "We're spending millions of dollars to modernize the mill. It just didn't make sense to pay for that without providing training for basic skills as well...
...errors of fact in the editorial were particularly disturbing. First, the editorial states: "Harvard addressed these concerns last January in a statement arguing that Asian Americans were over-represented in the sciences and math." The editorial then proceeds to accuse us of racially stereotyping Asian Americans on the basis of their interests. In fact, nowhere in our January statement was there any reference to fields of concentration by Asian Americans or any other ethnic group...