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...more difficult and it requires more resources to teach introductory science and math courses to variety of students," Martin says...
Professor of the Practice in the Teaching of Mathematics Deborah Huges Hallett says that the math department has adopted a new focus for its introductory classes...
...comment that 30 percent of the American workforce cannot read it surely outrageous, it does contain an element of truth. As Time magazine pointed out recently, nearly 15 percent of American workers are functionally illiterate. And many high school graduates go into the job market without adequate training in math, science and communications--skills critical to today's economy...
...object of a bizarre document called the Portland African- American Baseline Essays, which has never been published as a book but, in photocopied form, is radically changing the curriculums of school systems all over the country. Written by an undistinguished group of scholars, these essays on history, social studies, math, language and arts and science are meant to be a charter of Afrocentrist history for young black Americans. They have had little scrutiny in the mainstream press. But they are popular with bureaucrats like Thomas Sobol, the education commissioner in New York State -- people who are scared of alienating black...
...fingerprints of the culprits are everywhere. Paragraph 12 consists of, among other things, a list of numbers ostensibly related to JFK's academic record at Choate. It does not take a math concentrator to see the pattern: "two ... two ... 65 ... 110." Drop the zero from 110 and you have 11. Put two and two together to get 22. Subtract one of the twos from...