Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Santa Ana's Willard Middle School, in the shadow of the University of California at Irvine. "They don't like each other," Yrarrazaval-Correa says. "You know how middle school is." But the girls are his example of a new era. They used to be C and D math students. Now, after months at the math academy run by U.C. Irvine students at Willard, they are getting A's and B's and are ready for eighth-grade algebra, a prerequisite for the high school math courses necessary for college...
...display any text or image, but, like a computer monitor, rewrite that text or image as often and as many times as desired. Imagine a newspaper that automatically updates itself with fresh news and stock quotes and sports scores, in real time. Or a single textbook that becomes a math book in math class, a chemistry book in chemistry, and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in English. Or a billboard that advertises a new sale every day. MORE...
This combination of strict requirements and vague wording--plus a $100 limit on materials--forces kids to stretch their brains. And while each team has a coach, often a teacher or parent, that person is forbidden to give instruction. Says Arlene Cohen, 26, a math teacher who coaches John's team at Princeton Day School in Princeton, N.J.: "We're supposed to push them along but never give them solutions. Sometimes I have to leave the room to keep from blurting out advice...
...need these people, desperately need them, because you can't be simply the Best any longer. With them at the Kong at 2:30 a.m., at the Grille on a Friday night or over a neglected math problem set in your room, you'll begin figuring out where you really fit in a three-dimensional world. It will be amazing to see l,600 merit scholars fan out, like light through a prism, into a class with jocks, nerds, class clowns, artists and every other teenage demographic. Some poor souls will even join the Harvard Lampoon; a semi-secret Sorrento...
...bristle at bringing such touchy-feely topics into an already overcrowded curriculum. "I know of no evidence that marriage courses lead to better marriages," says Brookings Institution senior fellow Diane Ravitch. "But I do know of a great deal of evidence that schools are doing a poor job teaching math, science, history, literature and foreign languages." Then there's the question of whether kids who watch Dawson's Creek and get free condoms at school are thinking in the long term. Says University of Washington marriage expert John Gottman: "They should be learning about dating and how to even talk...