Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rationale for the school lies in the fact that studies show that girls, particularly from poor neighborhoods, learn better when boys are not in the classroom. Organizers say that the school will emphasize math and science--two subjects in which girls have often lagged behind boys...
...Young Women's Leadership School should not be a model for the public school system because we should not return to the days when single-sex schools were the rule, not the exception. Nevertheless, as an alternative school designed to improve the generally poor performance of girls in math and the sciences, it deserves a shot...
...weeks before she took her life, Alicia seemed particularly happy and motivated. Determined to improve her grades, she asked for a new seat in the math class, front and center. After the tragedy, the teacher, Sandra Crosby, and the students were haunted by that empty seat, and after much discussion, one of Alicia's friends volunteered to fill it. Crosby says she wishes she had known earlier that such a personality change is a common suicide-warning sign, perhaps indicating that Alicia had already made her decision to die and wanted to leave people with positive memories...
...part of the crisis-intervention team, describes the scene the first few days after the suicides hit the 6 o'clock news as "a large-scale psychiatric disaster." Students clustered in hallways weeping; classes sat numb and silent; teachers broke down at an after-school meeting. Says math teacher Crosby: "It was the roughest teaching day I've ever had." Because teenagers--impulsive and susceptible to fashion in all things--are considered particularly vulnerable to copycat behavior when it comes to suicide, counselors made a point of talking with students who had been in each of Amber's and Alicia...
Bennington is the daughter of a math professor with a Greenwich Village apartment and a country house, which makes her choice of after-school job seem even more implausible. She is not so much a hooker with a heart of gold as she is a hooker with nerves of creme brulee. She is comically neurotic--her heels and condoms are always spilling out of her book bag--and prone to ulcers and indigestion. "What's wrong with you?" she asks herself at one point. "Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use; be happy...