Word: maths
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...significant knowledge of English. He was accepted into the prestigious Stuyvesant High School on the strength of his almost-perfect score on the mathematical portion of their admissions test, although he flunked the English section. "I had already been doing advanced work for my age in both music and math when I got [to New York]," Elkies recalls...
...When people think of Asians, inevitably labels like `wallflower,' `math-science nerd,' and `good citizen' come up," said Alex H. Cho, former president of Harvard's Asian-Americans Association...
...first semester at Harvard, Sprouleenrolled in Chemistry 10 and Math 21a as the basisfor a pre-med college career...
Almost 12 years after the landmark federal study ``A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform'' warned darkly of the ``rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future,'' we remain a nation at risk. We are a nation, that is, whose 13-year-olds have average math skills that rank below those in 14 other developed countries, according to one 1991 study. We are a nation whose college professors complain that before they can teach the classics, they must teach the basics. And while nearly all American adults can read and write at a basic level, according...
...landscape is not bleak for everyone. Math and science proficiency has increased in the past decade, particularly among minority students, and SAT scores are also on the rise for blacks and Asian Americans. Compared with other industrial nations, Americans receive more education: in 1991 nearly two-thirds of recent secondary school graduates were enrolled in some sort of further education. The proportion of American college students who are minorities has been rising, from...