Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Classifications by grade were abolished; in reading and math, students used "programmed" workbooks (published chiefly by B.R.L.) that allowed them to work independently. One difference was noted by eleven-year-old Cheryl Garner, who transferred to Banneker: "In the other school, it seemed we always learned what I already knew." Teachers could earn up to $3,000 extra during the year for staying after class to take training classes or to develop new curriculums. Although only sixth-grade performance is considered in computing B.R.L.'s fees, at year's end all students took standard tests given...
...programs altogether. In Los Angeles, the teachers' union claims that most instructors now spend about $300 each year from their own pockets to give students books and supplies that the board of education cannot provide. Thus finance problems are sharpening the battle between traditionalists, who say history, English, math and science are the crux of a good education, and reformers who contend that these are not enough to reach restless students or keep poor ones from falling behind...
...Skinner-inspired teaching machines have begun to produce what amounts to an educational revolution. It was after a visit to his daughter's fourth-grade arithmetic class that he invented the first device for programmed instruction in 1954. Having seen "minds being destroyed," he concluded that youngsters should learn math, spelling and other subjects in the same way that pigeons learn Ping Pong. Accordingly, machines now in use in scores of cities across the country present pupils with a succession of easy learning steps. At each one, a correct answer to a question brings instant reinforcement, not with the grain...
...Robert DuPont of Washington's Narcotics Treatment Administration reports this new math of addiction in a New England Journal of Medicine article. Like most major U.S. cities, Washington is experiencing an alarming heroin epidemic. The number of narcotic arrests in the city rose by 462% between 1967 and 1970; drug-related crimes, such as robbery, theft and prostitution, also increased dramatically. In 1967 a total of 21 Washingtonians were known to have succumbed to heroin overdoses, and using the ratio of 200 addicts per overdose, officials estimated the city's addict population then at 4,200. The figure...
...skill," says one Chicago colleague. Indeed, so obvious was Fefferman's ability that no one in the mathematics department raised a quibble at his rise from assistant professor to full professor in a little more than a year. "Everyone in the department recognized his genius," observes another Chicago math professor. "There was really no reason any of those who voted could have laid a glove...