Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eight percent of the class said they intended to pursue studies in the humanities, six percent in the social sciences and another eight percent in the life sciences, physical sciences and math. Of these students, 10.9 percent said they planned to pursue an academic career...
...very best students score about average when compared to the rest of the world in areas such as chemistry, physics, biology and math," Molnar said...
...high. Critics maintain that real learning has been stifled. "Teachers are teaching to the test," says John Moore, chairman of the education department at San Antonio's Trinity University. Some South Carolinians, on the other hand, feel that their three-hour high school exit exam in reading, writing and math -- which for the first time will be required for a diploma this academic year -- has already had a salutary effect. "Students are taking it seriously and studying," says Robert Paskel, a state education monitor. One worry: that kids who do not pass will become discouraged and eventually drop out. "Holding...
Four students from Moscow State University have come to Harvard this fall to study math and chemistry as part of the two-year-old U.S.-U.S.S.R. Student Exchange Program...
...Improving performance on international math and science tests...