Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar suit, a Dartmouth student expelled last year for cheating on a take-home math test has sued the college for $1 million...
Leaving Brown with an A.B. in math, Saltonstall went to work for Betty Crocker, working his way up from a cake mix plant trainee to a supervisor and engineer. During his five year stint in the cake business, he was moved from Buffalo to Chicago to Minneapolis...
Predictably, the songs which spoof timeless issues have survived well. The revue includes some of his best, like "Vatican Rag," "New Math," "Pigeons in the Park," "Masochism Tango," and, of course. "Fight Fiercely, Harvard." But at least a quarter of the two-hour long show included songs which focus on either nuclear destruction, global pollution, or the folk songs popular 15 years ago. And while "Werner Von Braun," "Who's Next," and "The Folk Song Army" elicits chuckles, the overriding feeling is one of nostalgia, not of aroused social awareness...
...back towards looking at what's going on in the classrooms as opposed to just focusing on abstract administrative planning. Most recently, the Ed School was awarded a $7.7 million contract from the federal government to set up a research center for studying the use of technology in computer, math, and science education. The center has already started buzzing with plans to get researchers into classrooms to see how students learn from computers Half of the money will go towards Harvard's own center while the rest has been subcontracted to various education organizations which will work on different ways...
...profession. The fields that seemed to us then as the leading ones for such an undertaking were mathematics and science. Events of the last twelve months have confirmed our original view. Dr. Katherine Merseth has been instrumental in organizing HGSE's return to teacher preparation through our new MidCareer Math and Science Program. Successful completion of this program will yield a master's degree and Massachusetts certification as a high school mathematics (and possibly science) teacher. We believe that such a step is an important one, both actually and symbolically, indicating as it does our renewed commitment to work with...