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...feel the burden of tokenism. Luckily, I learned how to deal with it in high school.For example, during my sophomore year in high school, I was one of two black students enrolled in my Algebra II class. I have this problem where I don’t really like math, so sometimes I would fall asleep in class. It turns out that the other black student had the same problem as well. Because we felt that both black people in the class couldn’t go to sleep at the same time—at least...
...point likely to raise eyebrows among academic traditionalists is the rationale for the newly mandated study of Empirical Reasoning, which will cover math, logic and statistics. It is being added, the committee report says, because graduates of Harvard "will have to decide, for example, what medical treatments to undergo, when a defendant in court has been proven guilty, whether to support a policy proposal and how to manage their personal finances." Does this mean balancing a checkbook is on a par with balancing equations? What about learning for learning's sake? What about the study of history, which Harvard will...
...program that Lewis does consider equivalent to a Harvard education is Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, where Adam P. Lesnikowski ’08, a joint philosophy and math concentrator, spent his fall. Lesnikowski says that the worry over academic standards abroad (or lack thereof) is “definitely a valid concern...
...named "Esperanza," Spanish for hope. In April, he will receive his adult sentence, which he has already pleaded down from a possible life term to anywhere from 1 to 30 years - and is trying to negotiate even further downward. Chavarria arrived at Foothill unable to read, spell or understand math. Now he is in the 9th grade with the hope that he can convince authorities to let him stay at Foothill until he is 21 and earn his GED before he is transferred to an adult facility. "I'm getting all A's in my classes, but my mother doesn...
...which included analogies (“‘my favorite director to work with’ is to Woody Allen as ‘my favorite person to be intimate with on camera’ is to...”) and math (“what is the average age of a person you’re willing to make out with...