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...Office of the Registrar reports that males outnumber females in almost every science and math concentration--including applied mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics, biochemical sciences, chemistry, chemistry and physics, computer science, physics and the engineering sciences...
There is a disproportionate number of men to women in the math and science concentrations. Concentration Men Women Applied Math (168) 86% 14% Astronomy and Astrophysics (16) 94% 6% Biochemical Sciences (384) 62% 38% Biology (489) 51% 49% Chemistry (154) 62% 38% Chemistry and Physics (34) 71% 29% Computer Science (185) 85% 15% Earth and Planetary Sciences (38) 47% 53% Engineering Sciences (78) 82% 18% Environmental Science and Public Policy (144) 43% 57% History and Science (202) 40% 60% Mathematics (126) 80% 20% Physics...
...will air 128 hours of sport and spectacle from Nagano, a record for the Winter Games. In addition, TNT will broadcast more than 50 hours on cable. Nagano is 14 hours ahead of the U.S. East Coast, so schedules will require some math. Opening ceremonies, for example, will start at 11 a.m. Saturday in Japan, but Americans will see them live Friday night...
Proponents of the English for Children initiative were buoyed by a recent Field poll showing that 66% of Latino voters back the measure. Among the supporters is Jaime Escalante, the East Los Angeles math teacher celebrated in the film Stand and Deliver. He has signed on as honorary chairman of the campaign...
...program could be reformed. A stiff core curriculum could be introduced or all requirements could be abolished. The task force on core curriculum chose the first course. It proposed this past fall that all students should be required to pick one course out of eight offered in biology, physics, math, non-western cultures, modern social analysis and political and moral philosophy, and one out of 12 in western culture. Other recommendations include the abolition of the language requirement and continuation of an expository writing requirement...