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...mind-stretching essays on the color of mathematics and the composition of letters to Albert Einstein. But, says Ann Rainey, an award-winning eighth-grade math teacher in the Shelburne Middle School near Burlington, "we still don't know what a math portfolio should be." The development of a uniform portfolio-scoring system is equally difficult. Vermont education authorities have set up seven week- long sessions this summer to help teachers calibrate their mathematics scoring...
Most Vermont teachers seem enthusiastic, if curious, about the new method. But some fear that basic skills will suffer if uniform testing of students is abolished. "That would definitely be a mistake in math," says Steven Jarrett, an eighth-grade math teacher in Craftsbury. "Algebra needs to be practiced continuously." Concedes Ross Brewer, director of the Vermont project: "There are no smart people to copy. We are literally making this thing up as we go along...
...History should not teach a kind of uniform identity or a commonality of American culture. So much of American history really does involve struggle and conflict and different groups trying to come to terms with one another. I think it tells us that the melting pot has not served the function of melting people into a kind of common identity so much as the fact that people still retain their own senses of identity. It's easy for teachers to look for easily teachable generalizations for students. But what history tells us more than anything else is how complex...
...Margot Fraser discovered them during a trip to her native Germany in 1966. Undaunted by U.S. shoe-store owners who told her no woman would wear such homely shoes, she persisted by selling them mostly through health-food stores. Before long, they became an essential part of the hip uniform of the '70s. But unlike some other foot-friendly footwear of that era (remember Earth shoes?), they never really went away. Birkenstock kept its loyal following and diversified by bringing out men's and children's models...
...Barringer is realistic about his hockey career. He is grateful that he had the opportunity to wear a Harvard uniform and does not even know his statistics...