Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company which writes the six-part SAT composed of verbal and math sections and a test of standard written English, holds a predominant position in the testing market. ETS controls well over half the entire testing market, which includes such tests as the Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT), the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), and various professional tests such as bar examinations. Because of its leading role in the testing industry, ETS, which takes in nearly $90 million a year, has been the center of much of the controversy and criticism associated with testing...
Unemployment in cities is significantly higher than the national average--for urban-based minorities it's often two to three times higher. Many inner-city high schools no longer teach students even the most basic math and English skills. Crime forces city dwellers to live in perpetual fear. Increasingly, poor people cannot find non-dilapidated low income housing in which to live and raise families...
Today there are some 11,000 students, aged twelve to 18, from Central America and Africa on the island, along with 19,000 young Cubans, learning the fundamentals of math, physics, chemistry-and Marxist ideology. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, who visited the island, found plenty of regimentation, but no readily detectable evidence that the youths are there against their will. There may well be exceptions, but if so, they are effectively subdued by group pressure. Scott's report, after a two-day tour...
...neatly arranged with rows of sleek, polished-wood tables. Each nationality represented on the island has its own school. The curriculums vary somewhat. Students from Namibia (Southwest Africa), for example, are taught English grammar, while those from Angola and Mozambique learn Portuguese. Cuban instructors normally teach academic subjects like math or biology, but the teaching of social sciences and ideology is reserved for men and women teachers imported from the students' homelands. "They are here not to forget that they are Namibians," said one teacher. "They are not here to become particularly Cuban." The "revolutionary" part of instruction would...
Combining math and swimming has never been quite as easy as Robert's quiet persistence seems to indicate. In his first season, no one told him to get goggles to protect his eyes from the chlorine, so each night the math major spent hours trying to read his number theory texts with tired, bloodshot eyes. Although he now knows to wear goggles when conditions require them, the battle against falling asleep in class and at the library continues, thanks to 7 a.m. workouts...