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...professor in a Russian university--both had already achieved international academic recognition through their publications. Attaining such recognition may be easier for mathematicians than for scholars is other fields, Kazhdan speculates, because mathematics "depends less than any other on language and technology." About 100 Soviet refugees are affiliated with math departments in various American universities, he notes...
...Commission on Excellence in Education noted that only 20% of all 17-year-olds can write a persuasive essay, and only one-third can solve a math problem requiring several steps. A recent study by the U.S Chamber of Commerce found that 35% of corporations surveyed had to provide remedial basic-skills training to new employees. AT&T alone spends $6 million annually to teach workers reading and math skills...
...direction of education is as much a concern as its poor quality. High school curriculums have tilted toward home economics, music and driver education at the expense of the math and science needed for jobs in the new high-tech industries. About half of all students take no math after the tenth grade, and 80% drop science. Says New York City Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn: "The more we look at tomorrow's technologies, the more we see a need for higher skills. So far, our educational system really has not been geared to producing those skills." Several companies have...
...NCEE's findings, which were submitted to President Reagan, also assailed the lack of focus in secondary-school curricula, the shortage of offering in more advanced math, foreign languages, and sciences, and called for salary incentrives to recruit more and better qualified science teachers...
...numbers manifold in selective colleges throughout the nation. These students tend to be highly motivated and often score in the highest percentiles on standardized college entrance exams. Many applying to Ivy League schools, for example, have both superb grade point averages and scores in the 99th percentile in the math, chemistry, physics, and biology sections of the college board achievement tests...