Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 400 to 600 people enrolled in Computer Science 11 and Math 21a need to use the MacIntoshes for their classes, Jackson said...
...beginning of this semester, however, under a policy that might be termed "Apple apartheid," Harvard prohibited paper production (called "word processing") on the 40 MacIntoshes, and limited their use exclusively to computer science and math. Those who wish to use the Macs for word processing are now turned away—even if none of the computers are being used...
...system of eliminating bias in its tests, according to Ramsay. All final editions of exams are reviewed for race and sex biases by an external panel of math and English teachers and experts of mixed ethnic and cultural backgrounds...
...third of California's 586,000 Aid to Families with Dependent Children cases will be affected. The handicapped will be exempt, as will single parents with children under the age of six. All other healthy AFDC recipients will be ordered to take any necessary training, ranging from remedial math and language classes to high school equivalency courses...
Brink attributed the dominance of men in scientific fields to deep-seated social factors. Although studies have shown that males and females have equal aptitudes in math and science at the elementary school level, females tend to shy away from sciences and related studies because they are given less encouragement in those directions...