Word: maths
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Robert L. Chan '02, who took Math 22a, is not taking a math course at all this spring because of his dissatisfaction with the class...
...mail message. "Wait a second," I typed. "Who is this Ellis guy, anyway? B4 we interview him I'd like to know. =@)" Admittedly, the "B4" and "=@)" were lame and unnecessary--I was towards the end of a brief and disastrous experimental period with special e-mail shorthand and parenthetical-math sign-smiley faces. But the electronic response did not critique this visual jargon; instead, what I received was a nasty and merciless attack on my cultural skills and knowledge...
...Math 22--whose enrollment dropped from 52 to 18 students--is just a part of the annual exodus of students from introductory math and science courses...
Florida grade-schoolers aren't the only ones sweating new standardized tests these days. With President Clinton's proposal for national reading and math tests shelved by Congress, states are rushing to roll out comprehensive tests of their own. In the past two years, some 20 states have unveiled custom-made exams intended to hold students (and their schools) to higher educational standards. What's more, unlike the old-style multiple-choice exams, in which lucky guesses often padded scores, tests in more and more states now include subjective "performance questions" that ask students to craft essays and show their...
...test, though many educators claim the test was unfair because it was not geared specifically to school curriculums. In Massachusetts, which introduced its exam last spring, more than 80% of fourth-graders got a failing score or a "needs improvement" in English; half of all 10th-graders failed the math portion of the test. Governor Paul Cellucci calls the performance "unacceptable." Maybe so, but it's not surprising, says Harvard lecturer S. Paul Reville. "We were having difficulty reaching lower standards, and now we've raised the bar by a factor...