Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next year, the Ed School will be implementing several new programs aimed at improving the quality of education including a special curriculum for training math and science teachers...
...just so voracious about learning, and he never wasted a moment--he was so curious, so interested, so involved, and so vital," his mother said, citing the advanced science, math, and language courses that her son took at Harvard...
...President, Mondale charged, had "turned his back on the country, its children and its future." Mondale proposed an $11 billion program of federal aid that would offer block grants to communities to improve math and science labs, raise teachers' base salaries and develop computer-technology courses...
...accepted into lycées at the age of 16 must decide on one of several tracks. The "A" section, once the pride of French education with its curriculum of philosophy and literature, has lost out in popularity to more science-oriented programs. The "C" section for math and physical sciences has become the chief path for aspiring engineers and scientists and for those who want to enroll in the hec. Says one mother: "There's terrible pressure on the children to go into the scientific or economic divisions. Anyone who goes into the literary section is considered obviously...
...private school in Los Angeles. There, largely through the inspiration of a physiology teacher from U.C.L.A., she caught the science bug; she pursued that interest in college, first at Swarthmore, then at Stanford, to which she switched in her sophomore year. After two solid years of science and math, she turned to the humanities ("I needed a break from the equations") and fell in love with Shakespeare. In 1973 she graduated with a B.S. in physics and a B. A. in English...