Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former United States senator and a high school math teacher from Atlanta, Georgia are among nine nominees for six openings on Harvard's Board of Overseers...
Ratajczak, a former Radcliffe trustee, is a math teacher from Atlanta, Georgia...
...LANDMARK STUDY IN 1980 THAT FIRST raised U.S. consciousness about the math gap: elementary school students in both Japan and Taiwan rated far ahead of their American counterparts in mathematical skills. The shock -- and an aftershock when a repeat survey in 1984 found the gap still there -- galvanized parents, politicians and educators into placing a new emphasis on math and science in the schools...
...tested a decade ago. The result, published in Science: despite the hoopla, nothing has changed. Paradoxically, American parents say they are satisfied with their youngsters' education and think they do enough homework while Asian parents feel just the opposite. That attitude, say scientists, is a major reason that the math gap is not likely to close anytime soon...
...women's organizations, which complained that females were underrepresented in Clinton's Cabinet. The criticism -- coming just as he named African- American Hazel O'Leary, 55, to be Energy Secretary -- provoked an angry response from the President-elect, who accused women's groups of "playing quota games and math games." Clinton had barely finished fending off the feminists when some environmentalists inveighed against O'Leary, a utility executive Clinton had met only days earlier...