Word: maths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 8,000 math and science teachers entered this system last year, as compared with over 10,000 in social studies, 8,000 in English, and more than 12,000 in physical education. Many attempts to raise the level of science teaching are in progress. New York City has instituted a Bureau of Science and Mathematics to coordinate the curriculum in the public schools, and to try to bring standards nearer those of the Bronx High School of Science. A national education foundation has engaged Oscar-winning Frank Capra to direct some films dramatizing the opportunities in science...
...might well be used to raise straight academic standards. The University of Michigan set up a Special Science Advisory Committee in the hope of finding ways to increase the number of science Ph.D.s by 50%. New Mexico Superintendent of Public Instruction Georgia Lusk proposed that high school science and math requirements be doubled. But while New York City was also making noises about increasing science requirements, it was still trying to find a director of science for its schools-a post that has been vacant ever since it was created four years...
...that they are here, they have become immersed in study, and in writing papers in a foreign tongue. "I have to read math problems three times before I understand them," Julius says. Though they like Harvard they are not entirely in accord with Harvard's methods of education vis-a-vis the Hungarian and continental way. "You are not exactly students in the same way I was in Hungary," Heimlet asserts. "You have more freedom here, but I don't think it is good. You have a course, you write four or five papers a year, you write two finals...
...Negro and Puerto Rican group, has charged that Jansen "sends in 22-year-old girls right out of college." Moreover, a great part of the teaching is done by substitutes who are, to understate the case, inadequate. One man with an art instruction license is teaching social studies, math, English, science, and health education. This disturbed him not at all. "These kids don't know very much and don't want to learn anything anyway," he stated...
...Michigan State University. Waldron found himself confronted by every kind of question, from "What is an idea?" to "What are the three body types?" He had to conjugate Latin verbs, locate the source of the Mississippi, identify the President of the U.N. General Assembly, solve all sorts of math problems for troubled bobby-soxers. "Geometry," he found, "they just don't dig." So many questions poured in that Waldron soon realized the station's "reference library-a 1943 Who's Who, a 1950 Information Please Almanac and a big, beat-up Webster's Dictionary" would never...