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...truly believe that this is a meaningful addition, particularly in that it focuses on promoting the success of African-Americans within math and science—concentrations which have historically not been home to many in Harvard’s black community,” Hamilton said of the scholarship...
...Zanzini's human-resources director, Leandro Mangili. "They have finished secondary school, but they can't add without a calculator." The most recent study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that exactly half the country's 15-year-olds failed even the most basic level of math proficiency. In reading, 74% of Brazilian students could not demonstrate detailed understanding of texts, and a quarter to a third could not read even simple sentences...
...leave the industry with less funny money. But lenders claim such a move could force them out of the market. "We make less than half a percent on a guaranteed loan," says Tom Joyce, spokesman for Sallie Mae, the nation's largest student-loan company. "You do the math." And there is a renewed effort to get more schools into direct lending, which costs taxpayers an estimated $7.50 less for every $100 disbursed, compared with private loans. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy is pushing a bill that rewards colleges for switching to the cheaper of the two lending systems by giving...
Until then, the most significant outcome might be to remind teachers and parents - even those math-minded scientists - that dyscalculia is a neurological condition, quite separate from not paying attention in class or just being a bit slow. "Dyscalculia is where dyslexia was 30, 40 or 50 years ago," says Mahesh Sharma, a professor of mathematics education at Cambridge College in Massachusetts. Indeed, even the definition is a bit fuzzy. Some researchers count disabilities in spatial perception or arithmetic operations as dyscalculia, while others restrict it to difficulty recognizing numbers normally. Cohen Kadosh's tests hold out the possibility that...
...freshmen to explore the 44-concentration cornucopia that Harvard has to offer. There is no doubt that (in classic Harvard style) overeager students will take advantage of joint concentrations and secondary fields to mix and match, making the possibilities endless...or exactly 1,640, for all you math concentrators. Here are a few: East Asian Studies + Music = The Song Dynasty Earth and Planetary Sciences + East Asian Studies = Sailor Moon African and African American Studies + Linguistics = a concentration that clicks Environmental Science and Public Policy + Engineering Sciences = Greenough Hall Anthropology + Government = a natural selection Applied Mathematics + Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations...