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THREE-TO-SIX-YEAR-OLDS: For the youngest set of computer users, simplicity rules. Reader Rabbit I from the Learning Company uses digitized speech to help youngsters read and spell; kids click on three-letter words to hear Reader Rabbit pronounce them aloud. Millie's Math House from Edmark has an animated talking cow that invites children into her home to learn about numbers, shapes and sizes. And just this month, Software Toolworks released Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! for Kids, a simplified version of a program for older children that has sold more than 3 million copies since...
American education's increased emphasis on math and science has boosted school kids' proficiency, and and more students are taking advanced classes such as biology, chemistry and physics, the federal government reports. But a gender gap in math and science achievement still exists; the survey found that boys outscore girls in both disciplines. The good news follows a poor showing by American students in reading and writing skills, which was reported earlier by the U.S. Department of Education...
...Chatfield was a summer school student at Harvard making up science and math classes he'd "failed" during the academic year at Trinity College, he said...
...spent more time reading about the civil rights movement than I spent studying math and botany," he said...
...Wins math world series with unprecedented perfect score...