Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have got to get back to a concentrated core curriculum," says Democratic Presidential candidate, Sen. John H. Glenn, (D-Ohio) commenting on the problems of secondary school education. "What is important in education is math, and science, and English, and composition, and foreign language, and all those things that go into a very good basic education...
...issue of education, of course, is not new to politics. The United States made a concerted effort to push math and science in schools following the Soviet launching of Sputnik in the late 1950s. But in the space of four years, since the last Presidential election year, education has jumped from sitting on the backburner to being one of the most debated topics on the campaign trail...
Education issues really fall into two camps--the primary and secondary school questions and the collegiate questions--both of which are markedly different Debate on the kindergarten to high school years has focused on a range of topics--from teacher training and core curriculi to computer literacy, math and science competency, and tuition tax credits for parents of private school children...
...major points stressed in this area, at least by presidential candidates, is getting back to concentrated core curriculi in elementary and high schools--curriculi that emphasize traditional subjects. This especially includes topics in math and science, where U.S. slippage has made many educators fearful for future trends in industrial productivity...
...take the fastest computer, performing as many as a billion divisions a second, more than 100 million years to finish the task. Then, in the fall of 1982, a chance encounter closed the gap. During a scientific conference in Winnipeg, Canada, Gustavus Simmons, head of Sandia's applied-math department, was mulling the factoring problem over a few beers with another mathematician and an engineer from Cray Research, makers of the world's fastest computer. The engineer, Tony Warnock, pointed out that the internal workings of the Cray were especially suited to factoring, which is essentially done...