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...live there. Human capital is a function of education, which is why successful Asian tigers (like Singapore) and fast-growing developing countries (like Mozambique) put so much stress on the quality of their schools. German schools and universities used to be the envy of the world, especially in math and science. But the country has been shocked by a couple of recent reports from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The average performance of German high school students in math and science is now below that seen in most OECD countries, with a worryingly large gap between the strongest...
This leads me to suspect that there are some hidden elements of the American high school experience that contribute mightily to the formation of human capital. In the past 10 years, American high schools have gone through a quiet revolution, stressing a return to basics--four years of math, science, English, social studies and a foreign language--while assessing student performance in state-mandated tests. At the same time, American kids, Internet savvy and keyboard confident from about third grade, have developed the skills and comfort with technology that are vital for success in the job market. (Trust...
...found did not do justice to the verse. While Elkies stresses that for him creating music is more like composing poetry than making quantitative discoveries in mathematics, he admits that his type of composing has “a mathematical flavor” and supposes that his background in math predisposes him “to such procedures...
...connection of math to poetry manifests itself in the effortless way Elkies weaves the theme of the text and the themes of the music together in Psalm 23. At times soft and ethereal, light and melodic, the music then gathers to a roar. The male voices sing the words of the text while the female voices rise in pitch to a height sufficient to portray the magnanimity of divine presence. Elkies’ piece was incredibly moving...
...destroy accountability? In the decentralized American education system, the large amounts of public money spent on tests should instead be used in individual schools to improve teaching and ensure that both student skill and character are powerfully cultivated. In my middle school, for example, students who excelled in math were bused to the nearby high school to take more advanced classes. At the same time, classes at the middle school itself accommodated the skills of all other students. This emphasis on actually learning material should be at the heart of a good education. Yet the preeminence of tests today takes...