Word: maths
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...federal watch list due to disparities in performance among subgroups: white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American students, as well as low-income, special education, and limited English students. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, school progress is measured by overall improvement in both English and Math, and reducing the gap among subgroups in both English and Math. A school that fails to make progress in any one of these areas is flagged as needing improvement. For several of the past six years, Cambridge’s overall scores in both English and math have risen. But because high...
...political advisers--thought he should just drop it. "It was pooh-poohed by everybody," he says. "I am obstinate. I kept on drawing these squares: Well, if you have this number of people, you take that money, you move it there, couldn't that work? Let's do the math." State HHS secretary Ron Preston kept coming back to the one alternative Romney said he wouldn't accept: Dukakis' approach of requiring employers to either cover their workers or pay a hefty fee. "We didn't make as much progress as I wanted to," Romney says now. So the former...
...best resource our kids have is their school faculty. I am reminded of this fact every Monday afternoon at Math Club, held in my English classroom. The students who attend regularly don’t just come for the extra credit. They come because they love math. They come because they love hearing the teachers on my hallway debate the best way to solve an old AMC problem about the area of Farmer Bob’s land. We teachers are the Helena Aquarium...
...would hate to limit my role as an educator to this pedantry, and thankfully, I don’t. Rural teachers, as singular resources in isolated communities, are too important to reduce their impact to a five-step lesson plan. Indeed, my Math Club kids don’t stay two hours after school to listen to me lecture. They want me and Mr. Agrawal, a chemical engineer from Columbia, to make learning fun, one Farmer Bob problem at a time...
...first-year teacher, I can hardly claim to be the most effective educator Helena has ever seen. But simply by opening our doors every Monday for Math Club, we teachers are filling the Abyss. The secret? Farmer Bob, not federal dollars. As my students will tell you, millions in government subsidies plus an ever-growing Abyss is still, sadly, less than zero...