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...cancer. Upon arriving in the U.S. from Bolivia, Escalante studied English at night to earn his California teaching credentials. At Garfield High School, he found that his primarily Mexican-American working-class students were oppressed by a culture of low expectations, and he began to overhaul the school's math curriculum. His young charges did so well on the 1982 advanced-placement calculus exam that suspicious officials made a dozen of them retake the test. Each and every one passed...
...predicted, which made it that weekend's champ by $840,000. Why, then, do studios race to provide guesstimates when the weekend isn't over? Because there's usually not much news on Sunday, and the hit films get free publicity on that day's news shows. Marketing trumps math. (See pictures of movies that remake...
Before Dartek begins, Michael Bay (played by an actor in the Math Department, Robert C. Rogers) gives a profound speech involving life, art, and outer space—and you’ll have to check out the episode to find out what Bay does when his perfect movie screening goes haywire due to some film-swapping chaos. We can tell you one thing though: there are a whole lot of expletives involved...
This is the Harvard Allston Education Portal, a space that serves as a gateway for teaching and learning between the University and the community. The Portal, which is the brainchild of Director of Life Sciences Education Robert A. Lue, offers free mentoring and enrichment opportunities in science, math, writing, and public speaking for the neighborhood’s children, in addition to computer classes and a speaker series geared towards adults...
...emphasizes that the mentoring program is the heart of the Education Portal, where Harvard undergraduates work one on one and in small groups with first through 12th graders on math, science, writing, public speaking, and provide general homework help...