Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reveal the plot, but this seems rather silly--Deathtrap is tricky in a very predictable way. One has little chance to be confused: Bruhl constantly discusses the theatrical potential of the murders he commits, and ten lines rarely pass without a plot recap. It's rather like the old math problem about the frog in the slippery well who cannot jump three feet without falling back two. In addition, Levin makes his characters as self-conscious as his playwrighting. "Nothing recedes like success," quips Bruhl, and is so taken with the phrase that he writes it down...
...York City, while his screaming girlfriend watched helplessly. On Dec. 5, a Los Angeles high school gang stabbed one victim and beat a second with a heavy belt buckle. Attacks against teachers seem to be increasing faster than student v. student assaults. In one incident last November, a woman math teacher in a New Haven junior high accosted a 14-year-old girl in the cafeteria line after the student insulted a cafeteria worker. The girl wheeled round, flung her tray of hot soup and mashed potatoes into the teacher's face and began to punch...
...soon as OCR filed suit the outcry from students, teachers, faculty and alumni of the elite schools and the city's middle class in general reached the rooftops, How can an entrance exam consisting mostly of math and vocabulary be biased? they ask. Don't the schools already have an affirmative action program for minorities? If a student can't pass the entrance exam how is he going to handle the school's tough curriculum? If these schools--bastions of academic excellence in a school system of declining funds, declining quality, declining interest--are undermined by considering race over merit...
...daughter of a black Alabama businessman who "never wanted us to have to work for white people" and who instilled in her a strict work ethic, Collins allows no time for apathy, or mischief, at Westside. Class runs nonstop until noon. Math is taught, but reading and writing take precedence. Collins divides her pupils into three reading groups of varying ability, launching the five-year-olds with Aesop's Fables and assigning myths, novels and legends to the more advanced students. She draws up her own comprehension questions based on the classics ("Mount Olympus is the home...
...named Alfred Binet first devised a test that attempted to measure a child's intelligence. Seeking a way to distinguish truly retarded students from laggards with hidden ability, Binet developed a series of exercises involving completion of pictures and the assembling of objects, as well as problems in math, vocabulary and reasoning. To score the test, an equation was devised that divided a child's mental age-as determined by the test -by his chronological age, thus producing an "intelligence quotient." If a six-year-old child was thinking like most other six-year-olds, for example...