Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dorm, students report that at least half of the residents are athletes; in another, 14 of 15 on one floor are interested in concentrating in math or science. In one suite, all of the roommates are black; in another, three of six are from Miami, with one other from St. Petersburg...
...eight other men living in singles off ofhis common room and the six women living acrossthe hall are all planning to concentrate inscience or math...
...accreditation, depending on what you're considering. That's the way Irwin Weinstein, 57, of Wyckoff, N.J., moved from the corporate world of IBM, where he worked for 29 years as a program manager, to a classroom at Elizabeth High School in New Jersey, where he's now a math teacher. After getting a buyout package in 1991 that included a year's salary, a full pension worth one-third of his salary and a guarantee of continued corporate-paid medical benefits for himself and his wife Judith, Weinstein went to the Teaneck, N.J., campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University...
...Basically, because there's no opposition, you're going to get your name on the ballot almost for free," says Robert Winters, a local politico and Harvard math preceptor who publishes an on-line community newsletter...
...metropolitan area that today boasts 1,500 home-school families, many with teenage children demanding basketball teams, theater productions and science labs. So the home-school movement in Wichita has literally outgrown the home. Wichita's home schoolers boast three bands, a choir, a bowling group, a math club, a 4-H Club, boy- and girl-scout troops, a debate team, a yearly musical, two libraries and a cap-and-gown graduation. In donated rooms across Wichita, home schoolers attend classes in algebra, English, science, swimming, accounting, sewing, public speaking and Tae Kwan Do. Parental support groups with names like...