Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Math 21a, "Multivariable Calculus," ranked seventh with 310, close to its previous enrollment...
...while enrollment has declined, academic performance has not. Numerous studies show that Catholic-school kids do better than their public-school counterparts in reading and math. A 1990 report by the Rand Corp., for instance, found that low-income parochial-school students averaged 803 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, compared with a 642 average in regional public schools. The Catholic-school hierarchy is counting on the spread of vouchers to reverse a long drop in enrollments. Already, non-Catholics make up 13.2% of Catholic-school enrollment, thanks to parents who know a good thing when they...
Parochial schools have a better record of getting children whose parents did not attend college to take pre-college courses, like advanced math. According to Diane Ravitch, author of National Standards in American Education: A Citizen's Guide, their secret is no secret: a core curriculum. "Catholics don't ask parents what courses their children should take," she says approvingly. "They just assign them...
Dole advisers say Americans are simply unfamiliar with the plan's details. But judging from the Dole math so far, the campaign might hope that voters don't look too closely. To find the $757 billion needed to finance his tax cuts and balance the budget in six years, Dole calls on $147 billion from supply-side activity and an additional $217 billion in spending reductions on top of the $393 billion proposed in the Republican budget last June. But unlike his colleagues in Newt Gingrich's Congress who dared propose cuts in Medicare, Dole does not plan to meddle...
...prove his point, he picked up a book required for his math class. The length: 192 pages. The style: paper-back. The price...