Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...packed with a fund of information that includes the contents of Compton's Encyclopaedia, Webster's New World Dictionary, a Ginn science book, a thesaurus and a Macmillan reading series. He has also been programmed with biographical information on the 29 students, including their reading levels, math scores and hobbies. As he works with the students, Leachim keeps track of their progress and changing scores, sometimes asking extra questions of the faster learners and drilling slower ones on older material. After about six months, he will have to be reprogrammed to keep up with the class...
...grand jury-selected annually to investigate the city government-has praised the schools. This year's blistering indictment is just one of many attacks on a school system that is becoming increasingly beset by troubles as pervasive as the city's fogs. Since 1969, reading and math scores for San Francisco students have been dropping steadily; they are now well below national norms. School board meetings are repeatedly disrupted by noisy, contentious community factions attacking each other, the board and Board President Eugene S. Hopp. At a recent meeting, police had to quell a minor riot that erupted...
...truancy and class cutting are widespread. Science Teacher Nathan Weinstein gave failing grades to 19 of his 28 biology students at Woodrow Wilson High School last semester, mainly because they never showed up for class. Many of the students who do appear are stymied by their inability to read. Math Instructor David Friedman says the reading ability of Woodrow Wilson students is so low that teachers cannot use standard math texts, but instead must devise their own simplified versions...
...service, for a fee, sends you the names of students with certain characteristics," she said. "In this case, names of female students who did well in their math and physics achievements were requested...
Barnaby said that he was impressed with Princeton's strength. "We didn't hand them this math; we played well, but they were just too good," he said...