Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During Nixon's first Administration, said the committee, the federal share in operating public schools actually declined to 8%. The committee called for Congress to appropriate $1.5 billion a year to pay for remedial reading and math courses. It recommended another $5 billion for general aid to schools. This aid, the committee said, should reward states that reform their school finances, so that they no longer have to depend so heavily upon discriminatory property taxes...
...condemns Jewish colonialists for seizing all of Palestine from the Arabs. Two years ago, Adiv formed the Revolutionary Communist Alliance-Red Front, which has world revolution as an ill-defined goal, and enrolled a dozen members. Among them were Dan Vered, 28, a fellow Sabra and a high school math teacher in the small town of Kfar Saba east of Tel Aviv; David Kupfer, 26, a sometime petty thief and burglar as well as a dedicated Communist; and Yeheskel Cohen, 30, an Iraqi-born hotel clerk who speaks six languages...
...York City, the federally funded Vocational Foundation works with the hardest of the hard core: ghetto youths who are nearly all high school dropouts and average a fourth-grade proficiency in math. Half of them have had run-ins with the law, and 30% admit to having used hard drugs. Among other things, the foundation offers a JUMP (for Joint Urban Manpower Program) course that gives classroom instruction in architectural drafting to the youths who are placed simultaneously as junior draftsmen with 21 architectural and engineering firms. In the foundation's last class, 19 trainees started, 17 finished...
...Dave's block and went to St. Francis in the shadow of the expressway laughed and said that he didn't either. Maybe they would go into the army together Dave said, and laughed. Jerry's brother was in Nam and high school was a bore; geometry boring and math and no one cared anyway, not their parents or the teachers or anyone and they cut a lot and came to work and Dave's mother was glad because you don't get paid for going to school and Dave had to pay room and board even though...
...been turned down (he made it three years later). "That night," Evans recalls, "Gene and I went out and got totally sloshed." Born in the Kansas wheat-belt town of St. Francis, where his father worked for a wheat-silage company, Evans was an Eagle Scout, a math whiz and an all-around athlete. After graduating from the University of Kansas, where he held an NROTC scholarship, he won his wings at Pensacola, Fla. Subsequently he flew 100 carrier missions off Indochina and became the first Viet Nam veteran in the astronaut ranks. A modish dresser (typical garb: white slacks...