Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With the candidate on the road, Baker virtually yanked him from the race by confirming to reporters that the Bush effort in California was a scam. Bush was furious and convened a senior staff meeting in Houston. The candidate, like all candidates, could not have cared less about the math. He wanted to continue. Baker had a different concern. He knew Reagan would be "terminally ticked off" if Bush pressed ahead into California, Reagan's home state...
...into the classroom. When Tom Carlyle decided to become a teacher, he quit his job as a manager in a Manhattan publishing firm and invested $10,000 in a one-year program for career changers at Harvard's School of Education. Since 1986, he has been teaching high school math in the New York City public schools. His $30,000 salary is $5,000 less than he made in the private sector -- but $9,000 more than he would have made teaching math five years ago. Carlyle, 39, has no regrets. "Getting these kids through high school is much more...
Somebody should give these cafeteria workers a break. Last year, a house master questioned their ability to do basic math. And now an assistant dean is accusing them of racial insensitivity, a charge that is unfair and insulting...
Under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Project Literacy, Harvard students in Chelsea and others in South Boston prepare area adults in basic language and math skills in one area and for high school and college equialency exams in another. The goals and shortcomings of the programs vary, but their purposes are the same: to help people return to school without shame and gain control over lives which have run upon hard times...
Gardner, an author of books and essays on math, also puts much of the blame on teachers -- particularly at the elementary level, where many classrooms are run by people with little or no math training. "When a class is taught by a teacher not interested in the subject," he notes, "then the class is bored also." Another setback for numbers proficiency, Gardner argues, was infatuation with the new math that emerged during the 1950s. Says he: "Youngsters were learning all kinds of advanced things, but not basic math...