Word: maths
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...million on 110,000 children for a per-pupil total of $5,873, just shy of Maryland's statewide average. Yet the money produced a student body that failed to meet the most rudimentary state standards, as measured in a battery of tests that gauge functional skills in reading, math, writing and citizenship. The system's interim CEO, Robert Schiller, has called the city's schools "academically bankrupt." Within the district many administrators and teachers blame this failure on the fact that Baltimore, despite the extra costs of running an urban school system, spends less money per pupil than surrounding...
...they found plastic boxes with mesh tops and one or two caterpillars in them. English teacher Kay Pfaffendorf and social studies teacher Cindy Farmer had taken a course on raising monarchs at the University of Minnesota in order to present a project involving not only their subjects but also math, science...
Each of the divisions has a two-year curriculum devoted to the two core subjects, humanities and math-science, keeping the students with the same pair of teachers two years in a row. In the Senior Institute, students assemble portfolios demonstrating mastery in 14 subjects (seven majors and seven minors). Those portfolios are judged by a graduation committee on the basis of how well they satisfy the five "habits of mind" that form the basis for the curriculum: evidence, perspective, connections, supposition and relevance. It sounds New Agey, but students understand. As Lohattis Hayden, a 12th-grader interested in sociology...
Equally enticing was the Edison curriculum, which brings together several top programs in reading, writing and math as well as in music, art and ethics. Although some components are uncommon--teaching a foreign language to kindergartners, for instance--few are unique. Many schools already use the highly acclaimed approach to math developed by the University of Chicago and the Success for All reading program put together at Johns Hopkins University. What is unusual is that Edison has brought some of the very best approaches to bear in one place. Because an Edison school day is nearly two hours longer...
...schooltime to teach children to be polite, but politeness is more important than your IQ. It is better to be a B-average student with great manners than an A+ student who is a big wise guy. If all second-graders learned politeness and kindness just as they learn math and science, America would be a much more civilized society in 25 years. CHRISTINE DEVLIN, age 11 Brookline, Mass...