Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grocery Math. No exercise the students perform is called a test. Instead, the class carries out weekly and monthly "agendas," which may include filling out math work sheets based on grocery ads in the local newspapers, or conducting a tough cross-examination of Mount Grab's vice-mayor on local government. "I'd rather have my class go to see a city council meeting or fix the city's fire hydrants than sit in school all day," says Lodwick. "They're not going to use algebra and Latin, but they might want to run for council...
Here you don't get suspended if you don't work, but somehow, when it's up to you, you feel a real push to learn and get on." According to Math Teacher Erskine Keary: "We don't give our kids just one chance. We give them three and four-as many as they need...
Those were symbols, but the whole idea of Harlem Prep was to alter the basic prospects of ghetto dropouts. Instead of routine vocational courses, half-heartedly taught, Harlem Prep stressed college-level math and English, economics and biology. It did not grant a diploma until a student had been accepted into college...
...help anyone as long as he's not an addict," said Callender's successor, Edward Carpenter, 43, a veteran math teacher. He alternately cajoled, encouraged and threatened his pupils...
...important that alternative techniques of education be part of the public schools. The system should adapt and incorporate change." Others are less sanguine. "All you need to do is to look at the problems in other schools to know what's going to happen here," says Math Teacher Keary. "The public schools just don't work for these kids...