Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Okay pigs, now listen and listen good. There's a bomb in the Army Math Research Center-the university-set to go off in five minutes. Clear the building. Warn the hospital. This is no bull...
...practice the violin and almost took up a career as a musician. His formal schooling was a sometime thing: he spent eight to ten hours a day playing the violin and three hours a week with a tutor who came to the Stein apartment. "I learned a little math and I read a fair amount," he recalls. Only after a truant officer discovered him did Stein enter a vocational high school; it simply bored him. He dropped out, but won a scholarship in music at Manhattan's Juilliard School. Later Stein wrote music and produced a few off-Broadway shows...
Most parents view academic achievement in individual terms-that is, how their kids stack up against their immediate classmates. In fact, the U.S. has done little to determine the knowledge levels of entire age groups across the nation. What, for instance, do American nine-year-olds really know about math? What do they not know? Where are 13-year-olds most deficient in literature, say, or social studies...
...show scientific awareness picked up from the press, TV and practical experience. Most were strongest on medical facts: 70% know that adrenalin is a stimulant to the heart, 79% that whooping cough cannot be inherited, 91% that chromosomes determine sex. Young adults did well in fact analysis and math calculations. But only 26% recalled that the periodic table shows the relationship of chemical elements, and a scant 3% correctly picked uranium-lead dating as an accurate method of determining the age of ancient rocks. Far oftener than any of the other groups, the 26-to-35s admitted their shortcomings...
...chief feature of C.H.S. is a work-study program that heightens the students' "need to learn." Taught by 14 former college teachers and social-service experts, they devote two days a week to classes combining psychology, sociology, economics and literature. The freshman curriculum includes remedial reading and math along with Rousseau's The Social Contract and Orwell's Animal Farm. Sophomores study theories of teaching, ghetto psychology, urban economics and black literature. Three days a week, accompanied by their teachers, the students take their theory back to the neighborhoods by working as teacher assistants, community liaison trainees...