Word: mathes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...speeches throughout so-called "battleground" states like Ohio and Michigan, Bush has stuck to a lesson plan: He says he'd make sure states test the reading and math competencies of students in school that serve poorer areas. If schools didn't improve, he'd make vouchers an option for parents. He also says he'll help states double the number of charter schools in three years. The total cost: about $48 billion. Bush uses poll-tested phrases like "education recession" to describe a school mess, varyingly blamed on bureaucrats, distant teachers' unions, and the culture...
...students known at Stanford as fuzzies--non-math or science majors--these courses are often enjoyable ways to satisfy their natural science requirements...
Both Stanford's Palmer and Princeton's Dobin say the courses are often enjoyable ways for students to fulfill science and math requirements...
...encouraged those [science and math] departments to certify freshman seminars as fulfilling the [general education] requirements," Palmer says. "It is ideal for students that are not going to major in that area...
...Monday morning. And as the students work on math exercises, Feeley-Brooks checks up on the class. Jerome has a black eye he says he got from roughhousing with his cousin. George is sitting too close to Curtis and getting distracted...