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ESPP students are required to take courses in biology, math, chemistry and economics, and can register in courses offered at schools including the Kennedy School of Government, the School of Public Health and the Law School...
...next question was equally patronizing and arrogant, typical of a Harvard mind. Was this lady crazy? Didn't she understand that Harvard is the very paragon of enlightenment? She needed to get a grip on reality. Harvard teaches math, political science, physics, English. Its students and teachers are the best thinkers and human beings around...
...YEAR-OLDS: Kidware for this group must be demanding enough to keep children interested but not so tough as to cause them to switch off their machines. Davidson & Associates' Math Blaster, a venerable series that has sold 1.6 million copies since 1983, freely borrows video-game techniques. The latest title, In Search of Spot, sends kids on a quest to rescue the Blasternaut's caterpillar-like space pal. The correct answer to a math problem puts the user closer to freeing Spot from the Trash Alien's ship. The Even More Incredible Machine, from Sierra On-Line, confronts users with...
Does this software really teach kids anything that sticks? While there are no wide-ranging, independent studies to prove that such best sellers as Math Blaster and Reader Rabbit boost students' grades or test scores, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that kids love them -- and that the best ones can be useful teaching aids. Garry Breitstein, a teacher at Seattle's Hawthorne School, says his fifth-graders often spend their lunch hour and recess logging on to programs like Microsoft's Creative Writer, which helps children write stories by suggesting possible situations and opening lines. Another favorite is Microsoft...
...state standards. In an eleventh-hour effort to save the school, the district two years ago used federal money to buy a computer learning program called SuccessMaker, developed by the Computer Curriculum Corp. of Sunnyvale, California. The software allows individual students to advance at their own pace through reading, math and science lessons. After spending as much as an hour a day at their terminals, the students produced average test scores 50% higher than before; that helped persuade officials to keep the school open last year...