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...almost 2,000 caucuses at the local school gymnasium or library or steak house, where they might spend an entire evening arguing politics with their neighbors. (So large is the expected turnout that the traditional gatherings in people's living rooms have all but disappeared.) The math can get complicated, as supporters of candidates who fail to garner 15% in any caucus are given a chance to throw their vote to a second or even a third choice. And with delegates apportioned across the state in a mini-version of the Electoral College, a credible candidate must try to pull...
...He’s not the most animated speaker,” one student recalls. “You could definitely zone out a bit, especially when we’d do the math, and after two hours sitting in the same chair. But there’s no question in my mind that he is the smartest person I have ever met in my life...
...Once all the candidates have at least 15%, a formula Culver describes as "needing a Ph.D. in math to understand" is used to determine how many delegates each candidate gets. The percentage of delegates each candidate gets is the number reported in the media. Then the media, for reasons that are unclear, pretend that has something to do with whom the country wants to be President...
Kids live at SEED from Sunday evening to Friday afternoon and go home most weekends. The academic program is challenging. High school students are required to take four years of math and three of science and Spanish. To help those who aren't used to this level of work, class sizes are small--usually fewer than 14 students--the school day is an hour longer than at most D.C. public schools, and the focus, particularly in the lower grades, is on periodic tests that determine each student's progress. The school is not designed for kids with mental disabilities...
...bald-faced. Montana, for instance, still has about 100 one-room schoolhouses where the educator is a teacher, counselor and principal all-in-one. These schools struggle to meet basic accreditation standards, much less offer “AP courses,” or a full regiment of math and science. And SATs? Pretty much out of the question without a 100-mile drive...