Word: teaching
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...national scandal is as well documented as it is alarming. Half of all U.S. high school students take no math or science beyond the tenth grade, and half of all teachers hired to teach math and science at the secondary level are not certified in those disciplines. Hoping to find ways to make education for high technology a top national priority, Governor James Hunt of North Carolina and Dr. David Hamburg, president of the Carnegie Corporation, assembled a blue-ribbon panel of 50 business, education and government leaders. Last week the coalition issued a report declaring that the present economic...
...Oxford Film Foundation, which the movie's producer, Richard Stevenson, a 27-year-old American, helped establish. It will provide professional movie training, which has never existed at Oxford. This might be a mistake. The film, whatever its miscues, already has what no trade school can teach: a sense of how intelligent people think, talk and act within a cultivated society. It is hard to find that in any movie today, rare indeed to find it in the typical academic product...
...unforseen computer problems arose from a decision to teach the course in a more advanced computer language than had been used in the past. Nathan Goodman assistant professor of Computer Science and the head instructor of AM 110 said yesterday. He added that it was "very responsible" of the Ad Board to extend the deadline...
Thomas E. Cheatham, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, who will teach AM 110 next year according to Goodman, could not be reached for comment...
...problem with volunteer tax advisors, Allen said, is that "some people get carried away with what they think they can do." The IRS purposely limits what they teach the volunteers, and encourages them to refer complicated problems to the IRS's main Boston office...