Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engendered a lot of self-doubt in black students that otherwise might not have been there. This self-doubt expresses itself in a lot of ways." She remembers a recruiting trip in 1974 when she met a prospective black freshwoman who said she wanted to major in applied math to "show all the white people that a black woman can be good in applied math...
Rosovsky also cited the possibility of providing students with "a minimal understanding of math" as another example of what the task forces are considering...
...district's 75,000 pupils, in part because there are some limits to the number of years that each pupil will be bused. Lately the racial composition of the merged schools has stabilized at about 35% black. As gauged by national achievement tests in reading and math, student achievement has been unaffected...
...national symbol of white resistance to busing in 1971. Since then, tempers have cooled, and School Superintendent Dana Whitmer considers the busing program, which includes 15,500 of the city's 20,193 public school students, a qualified success. He concedes that overall test scores in reading and math have declined slightly because high-achieving white students from affluent families have left the district. But Whitmer maintains that individual achievement for both blacks and whites has remained the same and that "the outlook is good if we can maintain a stable, integrated population." That will be difficult; in four years...
...neither the parents nor the boys consider those disadvantages as too much. They have found the Stuart curriculum much broader than anything in the West End schools. Byron, who has been weak in math, is pleased that he can take an extra math course to catch up. "I know that I'm going to have to work harder," he says, "but I can do it. The teachers are closer to you here. They explain things more." Ken is taking an elective in chess. Neither had any problems with white classmates on opening day. Said Byron of one white...