Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evaluating what he or any other educator has done is to look at the achievements of his students. In Clark's case the record is mixed. No question that he cleaned up the graffiti, kicked out the pushers, restored order. But academic triumphs have been more elusive. While math scores are up 6% during Clark's reign, reading scores have barely budged: they remain in the bottom third of the nation's high school seniors. While a few more students are going to college -- 211, up from 182 in 1982 -- Clark has lost considerable ground in the battle against dropouts...
...last few years, many Asian-American students have made headlines by excelling in the classroom and winning prestigious math and science contests. But very little attention has been paid to the Asian-American students who are performing poorly in school. Many of these are refugees from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam who do not speak or write English well; some of them are too young to have mastered their own language. Poorly equipped to adjust to the new environment, they flounder, struggling to learn in a language and setting totally foreign to them. Recognizing the special help these refugee children need...
Twice a week after school and on Saturday mornings, 16 students from other area schools also receive help from the program. The Harvard volunteers bring them to the West End House Boys and Girls Club where they tutor them in English and math for about two hours. The program also seeks to open the refugee children's eyes to the world around them, by taking them on field trips--to receive Christmas gifts from Flynn or to visit the Children's Museum. "The amount of information transmitted is not as important as the appreciation of learning," said Richard Louie...
...time when American education more often disappoints than uplifts, at least one bright spot stands out: the U.S. graduate schools of engineering, science and math. "We have the best," brags Dean Ettore Infante of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology. One result is that students are flooding to the U.S. schools from all parts of the globe. Says Jean- Jacques Servan-Schreiber, chairman of the international committee for Carnegie-Mellon: "I think America is becoming a university of the world...
...some progress has been made toward the more positive goal of encouraging gifted Americans. Measures are under way in Congress that would increase graduate-fellowship aid from $115 million to $150 million next year, provide $95 million for upgrading university research facilities by 1990, and raise federal support for math and science education in elementary schools from $80 million to $150 million...