Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College Entrance Examination Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test, still the broadest standard of nationwide educational achievement, have been falling slowly but steadily since 1962. As measured on the SAT'S 200-to-800 scale, average verbal ability has fallen by 10% (to the 430 level), while average math skills have declined by 6% (to the 470s). Expectations that gifted s students, at least, would benefit from the infusion of money and technology into education also seem dashed. The number of high achievers on SAT tests (those scoring over 600) has been dropping. A report commissioned by the College Board found...
...High, located on a hill next to a woodland preserve, are superb. Eight interconnected stone and brick buildings in one giant comprehensive and vocational school, with a gym just short of a football field in size and the second largest indoor swimming pool in the state. The much esteemed math and science departments?which offer such courses as computer programming, calculus and earth science?have at their command a computer with eleven keyboards The facilities for vocational education, which train 471 of Medford's 3,548 students, include a fully equipped school of cosmetology When Medford High opened seven years...
...began offering its 1,866 students a wide variety of courses in an effort to broaden the traditional curriculum. The number of courses has grown to 215. Elective options in English include science fiction, film studies and business communications (considered easy) or British literature (harder). An array of general math and essential math courses has sprouted in the mathematics department, traditionally regarded as the best in the school. Although four years of English are mandatory standard survey courses stop after the tenth grade. No foreign language is required. Students must take two years of science and one of math...
...easy courses proliferate, classes in the harder subjects wither away. Calculus and Russian, two post-Sputnik specialties, are extinct. Only 35 students are braving physics this year. Few kids prefer the nononsense, four-year algebra-geometry-algebra-trigonometry sequence to the simpler math courses. The attrition rate in foreign languages is so great that after the first year, students in higher courses are combined in one class. High-ability kids are not taking high-level courses," says Accounting Teacher James Whitty. The students ask: Why should we?" The school's course brochure advises college-preparatory students that they "should make...
John Johnson a strict, highly respected math teacher, has been at Marshfield for 18 years. He accepts the obvious: students are not taking the traditional math courses because "the homework has dropped off in other courses and it's easier for kids to get good grades elsewhere." A stocky, gray-haired man who is also head basketball coach, Johnson worries that the simplified math offerings are "an easy