Word: maths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Science and math? "Why should everybody pursue algebra, physics and chemistry? Must everyone play the piano, or play football? Granted that a knowledge of arithmetic and general science is essential, how far beyond that are low-ability students supposed to go?" Summing-up Hollinshead credo: "We do not believe that human truth is always and everywhere the same. We believe it varies and changes with time and place . . . We also believe that education has something to do with preparing the student to be able to adjust (horrible word of the critics...
...program for bright pupils, those planning to attend college, include four years of English, science, math, history, and foreign language. In addition, the curriculum would contain courses in art, typing, and mechanical drawing...
...changes most principals mentioned: stiffening of math and science courses, special programs for gifted students. Some of the schoolmen are scrambling hard to reach a now fashionable orbit: "We are going to employ a more competent science instructor...
Killian, who spoke with the others to an audience of high school principals and math and science teachers in Washington, B.C., said it is futile to accelerate science education without raising the level of education in general, and that first there must be an end to "the mucker pose that it's smart to be anti-intellectual." He called for "a weeding out of the trivial, narrowly vocational subjects...
...Math Teacher Cooper, who grouses that "Aspen is suffering from a national disease known as general education, whose symptoms, sores and scars are in full display," was prepared to pass out Ds and Fs whenever necessary. Sharon and her buddies were prepared to ski in the Nationals. And the other Aspen schoolchildren were prepared to have a rousing good time. A couple of weeks ago, acting on the newly discovered principle that a parent can yank his child out of school whenever he feels like it, 15 of them got parental consent, hookyed off to watch some ski races...