Word: schoenfeld
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...vocational skills taught by apprenticeship. This produced a school system in which math, science and reading are taught through abstractions that, in the words of one expert, are "void of the complexities of the real world and thus irrelevant and even boring." The results can sometimes be ludicrous. Alan Schoenfeld, an expert on math education at Berkeley, notes that students characteristically answer "seven buses remainder ten" when asked how many 35-passenger buses are needed to transport 255 students. In practical terms, of course, the answer is eight, since the remaining ten students will need another...
...recap briefly: After the Bruins' five-goal victory in game three, Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld verbally and maybe physically attacked the referee. The league suspended Schoenfeld for at least one game, but did so without a hearing, enabling the coach to go to a New Jersey judge and get an injunction to allow him to coach the next game (on the basis that the suspension without a hearing violated his due process rights). Then the on-ice officials, who have complained of a lack of league support in the past, refused to work the game, and eventually amateur refs--including...
...worth sacrificing a playoff game for the honor of a sport beset by as many buffooneries as the NHL. As Schoenfeld has shown, there's no honor in the NHL. Or in being a pro hockey...
...Jersey's second choice in the 1985 draft, Sean Burke, joined the team in mid-March after spending the year as the Canadian Olympic goaltender. Schoenfeld immediately gave him the number-one goaltending position in New Jersey...
...Like Schoenfeld and Burke, the Devils are young, excited, humble and standing tall...