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Peter Kronheimer, an Oxford math professor renowned for his work in topology, has accepted a tenure offer from Harvard and will join the math department in the 1995-96 academic year...
Kronheimer said he is excited to come to Harvard, which he said has one of the best math departments in the world...
...math and physics departments had been hit the hardest by the thefts because they had workstations stolen," Steen said...
...national debate, you would believe that families and schools are failing and government programs and policies don't work," said David W. Grissmer, who led research based on students ages 13 and 17 who took the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests between 1970 and 1990. (Average math and reading scores increased by 3 percentile points for whites, 11 points for Hispanics, and 19 points for blacks.) Rand says their findings may mean desegregation and increased spending on schools -- especially programs targeted at minority students -- paid off after all, while early education and nutrition programs for poor children also...
...these suggestions are not just for women only. Men, too, will benefit from such changes, as they will become more used at an earlier age to seeing women in the fields of math and science, leading them to accept and respect their female peers when they enter the working world...