Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incipient party became audible, my next door neighbor kindly said, "Hope you can stand another hour of this." Two hours later, after the whole dorm has spent a great deal of time in semi-riot, the proctorian rumble continues, and I have given up hope of finishing my Friday math assignment and getting the hum paper done. My gripe is that, first, it is unfair to conduct such a bolsterous affair on a Thursday night, when most Pennypackerites have classes on Friday; and, second, that, if such a party were the scene in my pad, our kindly proctors would quickly...
Despite all the exciting reforms in U.S. schools, a prime problem remains. That problem is teachers-teachers who do not understand math and foreign languages, teachers unequipped to carry out new methods such as programed learning, teachers who cannot recognize the hunger of children to learn, teachers who may simply be none too bright. So says a reporter who lately spent 30 months in the rarely performed effort of finding out exactly what goes on in U.S. classrooms...
...everybody can "catch up." Sample class plan in New York City: "Industrial arts. Boys and girls wear aprons and hats; prepare spaghetti luncheon and eat it." As for bright children, grade-skipping is widely disapproved on grounds of "mental health." The approved practice is "enrichment"-not real digging at math or mythology but puerile "current events...
...California girl, sub-par in math, who scored in the upper 2% on the N.M.S. verbal test. Outstanding in writing and history, she is one of 20 winners "showing superior attainment and promise in one field...
Under plan two, non-Honors concentrators will for the first time be required to take Math 1 and Chemistry 20, in addition to the present requirement of one year of physics and introductory chemistry. Honors students under both plans will have to take the independent research course, Biology 40, and prepare a senior thesis in connection with...