Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...project was created by civil rights activist Bob Moses and is designed to teach college-prep level math to all students...
Jennifer R. Weinberg-Wolf '99, a peer tutor in the areas of math, physics and astronomy, said while she does not fore-see a huge jump in the demand for tutors, "it's great that the school is subsidizing the service...
Harold E. Luber '99, also a tutor in math and physics, said "making [tutoring] cheaper will only slightly increase the number of students" but may increase the number of hours that each student reserves...
That may soon change. This fall a report on the Third International Math and Science Study (TIMSS), commissioned by the National Science Foundation, will present a litany of unsettling findings on the quality of American public schooling compared with that of the rest of the world. One conclusion: the deficiency of America's average students is a major reason for the woeful U.S. performance in the TIMSS exams. Too many schools, the report says, "have sacrificed the attainments of more average students in an attempt to bolster the performance of better students." As a result, American eighth- and 12th-graders...
...full-time work since 1993, says, "We intimidate people who are younger than we are and who might be our boss. They see their parents, and if they've had a bad relationship with their parents, that counts against us. Secondly, the human-resources departments in companies do the math and figure out that in five to seven years we might be a burden on health or pension programs. There isn't much attention paid to the merit we can bring...