Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where the change in the prospective lawyers' test involved an increase in math questions, the revised MCATs introduced a larger number of science questions--to test for both specific knowledge useful in medical school, and for the ability to think in a scientific mode, Sentress said...
...worked hard at fulfilling its charter: to be "ever equally open to youth of requisite qualifications from every quarter." He set up Short Term Institutes, which bring some 95 high school students a year to Andover for intensive sixto ten-week seminars in a single subject, and an accelerated math and science program for minority students at the school's 700-student summer session. With middle-class families facing ever increasing tuition costs, Andover is taking more and more of their children for just a year...
...provide federal encouragement and money for training programs run by private business. One good model is the string of Opportunities Industrialization Centers started by the Rev. Leon Sullivan in Philadelphia and now operating in 137 communities. OIC first gives the hard-core unemployed brush-up courses in English, math, dress and deportment, then trains them for specific jobs (welding, typing, data processing), many of which, local businessmen report, are actually there waiting to be filled. In 14 years, says Sullivan, OIC has graduated 400,000 trainees and placed 300,000 of them in jobs; 80% stick...
Sternberg said the Math Department neither supports nor opposes the proposal, and Kaufmann will make the final decision...
Hughes-Hallett said all teaching fellows in Math Ar now receive three-tenths the pay that junior teaching fellows receive...