Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles, grew up in Las Vegas, the son of a logger who later became a railroad engineer. Ogle took calculus in high school, used a W.C.T.U. scholarship (he is no longer an abstainer) to help finance his studies at the University of Nevada, where he majored in physics and math. In his last year, he married a girl he had met in church: Johanna Wilhelmina Schouten, whose parents emigrated from Holland. In recent years, she and their five children have bravely endured both his long absences from home and his addiction to secondhand automobiles (he owns four...
Nothing Ordinary. Thinking ahead, Carnegie in 1956 supported pioneering school math reforms. It launched James B. Conant on his key studies of U.S. high schools (TIME cover, Sept. 14. 1959). and in 1958 it got public campuses to set up honors programs for gifted students. In the past year, Carnegie underwrote everything from courses in Chinese at a private school in Massachusetts to helping Denver parents teach their kindergarten children to read, plus a significant $300,000 grant to Notre Dame for the first big study of U.S. parochial schools...
Bullets & Combs. Oliver Treyz (rhymes with preys), a math major (Hamilton College), a statistical control officer in the Army, a network and ad-agency research man, was admittedly no creator...
Joining Conant are university scholars, who once disdained professional educators but are now more than willing to add their voices to the task of modernizing the school curriculum. Reforms are under way in almost every subject: biology, chemistry, economics. English, math and physics - and all of the reforms are creating new national yardsticks. Stirring the schools equally is a flood of new knowl edge about learning itself, the work of scholars who now look on the process of education as an untapped gold mine...
...reforms developed through "a great variety of channels." such as universities and learned societies. "A central body," he says, "could be a target." To solve the problem of "making it uncomfortable for people to be slovenly" or "telling the Medicine Hat school board what's going on in math teaching," Gardner suggests increased publicity by state education agencies: "One 30-page booklet could lay out everything new in math teaching." Vice President Alvin C. Eurich of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education suggests that every state set up a research commission, financed...