Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diagramming sentences went the way of Wuthering Heights, and survey literature courses were transformed into cotton-candy electives like "Expressions of Love." Nationally, average scores on the verbal portion of SATS dropped more than 50 points from 1963 to 1980. A California survey found that many math and science texts now in use are ten to 20 years old. One book still used as a reference in a second-grade classroom near Cape Canaveral even tips off students: "Soon we may land on the moon. Watch...
...challenge the unchallenged and to brighten the best. New York State is considering a proposal that would require foreign language proficiency by ninth grade. Tennessee has approved a program that will award "honors diplomas" to students who voluntarily complete an accelerated course of study with strong emphasis on English, math, science, arts and foreign languages. Louisiana has opened a residential state school in Natchitoches for students gifted in math, science and the arts, modeled on North Carolina's boarding school. In Iowa, where only 1,500 students took calculus last year (but 17,500 elected driver's education...
...perhaps the most fundamental building block to the whole educational program. If you can't read, write, speak and listen, you won't do anything else well." In June, Crim announced that the average student in kindergarten through tenth grade was reading at the national level; math achievement was slightly above the norm. The dropout rate last year was 4% (down from 12% in 1973), and the average daily attendance was 94% (up from 86%). Says Crim proudly: "Our kids voted with their feet. They stayed in school...
...parents, and the third time, they are forced to do work around the school." The percentage of Edison's students who passed language assessment tests went up from 54% in 1981 to 83% in 1983. This fall the school is starting a special program in solving word, math and logic problems...
...lack of talented and trained teachers is especially critical for math and science. Only 50% of such teachers are qualified in their subjects; most have been recycled from other areas. The undergraduates who excel at math or physics are smart enough to know that they can make considerably more money in industry than in teaching. From 1971 to 1980, the number of math teachers dropped 78% nationwide. Massachusetts universities produced only two graduates last June certified to teach chemistry on the high school level and only two who could teach physics. Berkeley, the proud flagship of the California system...