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...this: You buy a house for $200,000 with 20% down, or $40,000. Say you later sell the house for $400,000. Your profit is $200,000 on a $40,000 investment. That's a fivefold return on a property that merely doubled in value. Now imagine the math if you put down only 5%, which is how raiders...
...State University documented thousands of errors in 12 of the most widely used middle school science texts: the Statue of Liberty is a lefty? Volume equals length times depth--and never mind height? It was merely the latest illumination of textbook bungling. In 1999 the mathematicians enlisted to review math books submitted for use in California said they were "shocked" by the frequency of mistakes--as many as one on every four pages. Mel and Norma Gabler, the self-anointed textbook watchdogs of Longview, Texas, have been compiling detailed lists of textbook errors since 1961; their most recent scroll...
...science education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows that students who had taken high school physics classes that used textbooks did substantially worse in college physics than those whose high school classes used no textbooks at all. Baltimore's nonprofit Abell Foundation, searching for a top-flight math book for gifted students, couldn't find one in the U.S., and turned instead to an English-language book from Singapore...
...BUSH: Combines some specific federal programs into broader performance-based grants but also creates new categorical grants for character education and math and science partnerships...
...this solemn undertaking has more the air of a stubborn exercise than an imaginative act. Indeed, there are times when, as in The Location of a Line, 1975 (in the catalog but not included in the Whitney incarnation of the show), the written instructions sound like a mad, pedantic math teacher droning himself and everyone else within range into a coma. Compared with this boilerplate, Euclid reads like Mickey Spillane...