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...money spent, Harvard faxes are not used excessively. The Math Department says it uses its fax only four or five times a day. Dining Services says the Same. Likewise for PBHA and the Social Studies and Physics Departments. Even if each of these groups shared a single fax machine, it would be in use for less than one hour...
...Bush Administration is not amused by E.P.I.'s new math. An Education Department rebuttal says the institute has mixed "apples, oranges and moonbeams to produce an indigestible concoction." By measuring education spending as a percentage of national income instead of comparing dollars spent, it says, E.P.I. uses a methodology that is "seriously flawed." But the study does, in fact, compare per pupil expenditures as well. Result: the U.S. comes in ninth out of 16. "No matter how you do it, we're a low spender," says Lawrence Mishel, co-author of the report. "We're definitely not as Bush claims...
While a deemphasis of the computer requirement that has plagued students over the past years may come as a relief, the institution of a math requirement...
...longer part of the business society; they are part of the knowledge society. If you go back to when your father was born and mine, knowledge was an ornament, a luxury -- and now it is the very center. We worry if the kids don't do as well in math tests as others. No earlier civilization would have dreamed of paying any attention to something like this. The greatest changes in our society are going to be in education...
...toughest job in U.S. public education. But Joseph Fernandez, who takes over this week as chancellor of New York City schools, is itching for the challenge. Since he was tapped for the post last September, the onetime math teacher has commuted six times from Miami, where he served for two years as Dade County school superintendent. His mission: to confer with civic and union leaders, politicians, teachers, parents, the press and anyone else with a stake in the nation's largest (940,000 students), and perhaps most troubled, public school system. Says Fernandez: "I had to convince the city that...