Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stresses the need for Harvard to improve its relations with the outside world at all levels: the local, the state and the national. He places particular emphasis on improving relations with Cambridge. He cites as an example the university's current efforts to retrain local teachers in science and math and to provide access to computers for Cambridge schools. "My proposal is to start with the local area and work out from there," he says adding. "This is an area where Harvard can be a leader...
...Graduate School of Education this week held its first public forum on math and science education, using money awarded last year in a contested $7.7 million federal contract from the National Institute of Education (NIE) to fund a center for technology and education...
...conference, held Monday and Tuesday, brought 150 educators from around the country to discuss problems in teaching math and science in elementary and secondary schools, and the potential role of computers in solving these problems...
...still do have a history to get over. But I do think that the place where the University really should be worrying the most about the problem is at the level of educating the--students for example, making sure that the women are at least encouraged to take some math courses...
What happened to Webster is that it was turned into a so-called magnet school. Across the country, schools like this, usually specializing in one subject area, such as math and science, but always emphasizing excellence, proliferated during the 1970s to promote voluntary integration. The idea was that white families would be encouraged to enroll their children at an inner-city school offering a first-class program. And in some cities it was hoped that magnet schools would make court-ordered busing more palatable. "Magnets here are demonstrating that mandatory busing has not been the issue," says San Diego School...