Word: mathe
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...shift back to single-warhead missiles scrambles the prevailing mathematics of arms control. With this in mind, the commission recommended a different method of calculating strategic threats: counting the number of warheads and their size rather than the number of missiles possessed by each side. While the new math won prepublication plaudits from Pentagon officials, it could further complicate the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva...
...faculty became determined to improve the school. Led by Salgado, who can call most of his 1,700 students by their first names, the administration began beefing up the academic program, installing the school system's first computer center and adding advanced courses in French, Latin, math, biology and chemistry. White enrollment has grown from 44% during the first year of busing to 50% this year. A total of 29 white students have left private schools to ride a bus 45 minutes each morning to Johnston. In 1980, 90% of the students were below grade level in math...
...finds a panel seeking to solve the math and science problem
...national scandal is as well documented as it is alarming. Half of all U.S. high school students take no math or science beyond the tenth grade, and half of all teachers hired to teach math and science at the secondary level are not certified in those disciplines. Hoping to find ways to make education for high technology a top national priority, Governor James Hunt of North Carolina and Dr. David Hamburg, president of the Carnegie Corporation, assembled a blue-ribbon panel of 50 business, education and government leaders. Last week the coalition issued a report declaring that the present economic...
Last month, by a vote of 348 to 54, the House whizzed through a bill that would spend $425 million to improve science and math programs in schools and colleges and fund teacher training. Another 15 bills have been introduced in the Senate, including two by presidential candidates, Ohio's John Glenn and Colorado's Gary Hart, that would greatly increase the federal role in education. The Administration, however, has been backing a science-and mathematics-teacher development act, sponsored by Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a conservative Republican, that would spend just $50 million. Some Republican conservatives, like...