Word: mathes
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...nation's colleges should impose tougher admissions standards, including requirements for more study of English, math, and science, according to a report released last month by a national commission appointed by the Education Department...
...report said colleges should raise the number of specific courses in English, math, and science required for admission, student performance in those areas, and requisites scores on the SATs and Achievement Tests. The Committee also urged that colleges make an extra effort to tell applicants what those changes...
...report also argued that education has been battered for the last 20 years by a "rising tide of mediocrity." The commission called for high schools to require four years of English, three each of math, science and social studies and a half-year of computer science...
Nearly 40% of today's 17-year-olds cannot draw inferences from written material, and only a third can solve a math problem requiring several steps. It is no wonder that between 1975 and 1980 there was a 72% increase in remedial math courses at four-year public colleges. The trend, concludes the commission, "stems more from weakness of purpose, confusion of vision, underuse of talent and lack of leadership than from conditions beyond our control." Added Gardner: "There is ample blame to go around." Though the commission members all started with their "own jumble of biases," said Gardner...
Stiffer State and Local High School Graduation Requirements. Specifically, the report suggests at least four years of English, three years apiece of math, science and social studies, a half year of computer science and, for the college-bound, two years of a foreign language...