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...Everybody in core classes is going to be non-concentrators, or people who don’t care,” said Gopal Sarma ’05, a math concentrator. “I think that should never be the case with courses you take in college...
...puts tacks on classmates' chairs and turns his math tests into paper planes may have a problem, but chances are someone will act quickly to find out what it is. Maybe it's one of the attention disorders so commonly diagnosed these days; perhaps there's trouble at home. The point is that disruptive children don't go unnoticed. But what of the child in the same classroom who never acts up and whose reports are full of ticks in the right boxes? Though easy to teach compared to the troublemaker, some children like this might also be crying...
...former teacher and current member of the Virginia house of delegates met repeatedly with Department of Education officials and even visited the White House to complain about No Child Left Behind, the law President Bush signed two years ago that requires states to test students in reading and math every year and penalizes schools that don't meet standards. Dillard wanted more flexibility in administering the policy; he got none. So last month he led the house of delegates in passing a symbolic resolution calling for Congress to exempt Virginia from the law, which it refers to as "the most...
...decided to come to Harvard at the last minute. After sending in the forms saying I wasn’t coming, I changed my mind,” he jokes. “I started as in-between math and physics, but I took a course with [Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics] Howard Georgi, who’s still here, and it really impressed me how fantastic it was that the math could be used to describe the real world. So by the end of freshman year I was pretty certain, and I was physics from then...
Last February, MIT dropped its minorities-only requirement for a summer program designed to increase math and science skills among high school students and incoming college first-years...