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...modular" approach to the first year econometrics and economic theory classes. Spence, who served as chairman of the Ec Department last year, was reportedly instrumental in the transition to the new program. Other reforms include a mandatory first-year statistics class and an optional two-week pre-registration math seminar...
During the past six years, about 8,000 members of minority groups were turned down for jobs at Prudential Insurance, in part because they could not meet minimal standards for reading or math. Though most were high school graduates, scores of 3 or lower were common on math-competency tests, where the scale runs to 9. Last week Prudential revealed that it was going into the business of remedial education. In a precedent-setting agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor, the company promised to spend an estimated $3 million to offer 260 classroom hours of training to the same...
...agreement is the first requiring a company to upgrade a rejected applicant's skills. Stressed will be English, math, reading and keyboard training, all with the goal of raising competency to at least the ninth-grade level. Participants will be paid the minimum wage of $3.35 an hour while learning, and some of the classes will be at night so that trainees now working elsewhere can attend. At the same time, those employment tests that gave the applicants such a hard time will be reviewed with an eye to making them more job related...
Bookstore shelves sag under the weight of volumes quantifying what computers will do for our math, medicine and management, but The Second Self explores a broader futurescape. Like the telescope, which forced man to accept a less exalted position in creation, says Turkle, the computer is challenging the manner in which we think about our ourselves. "The question," she writes, "is not what will the computer be like in the future, but instead, what will we be like...
Although Turkle suggests that computers have positive qualities-they teach math to the unscientific, for instance-addiction to them is a way to avoid human emotion. Jarish, 12, is a loner who relentlessly plays video games because, unlike people, they obey strict rules. "You walk out of the arcade," he says, "and it's ... nothing that you can control." Arthur, 34, bought a computer to speed up his architectural business, but spends hours at the console, "poking" and "peeking" into programs, an experience he likens to a sexual kick. Says he: "Sometimes I feel guilty when...