Word: wellesley
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...Wellesley College, meanwhile, is using a different approach. Its "Discovery Course in Elementary Math and Its Application," now in its third semester, peddles soft-core math, or math disguised as games. Sample puzzle: the 15 or so students, seated in a circle, are given a map and told to color each country, using as few colors as possible and making sure that the same color is not used for adjacent countries (the purpose: to learn network theory). Says Alice Schafer, the program's director: "The goal of the students is to solve the problem, while that of the instructors...
Both courses, which are financed by the federal Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, have impressed students. Wellesley's course, for example, is oversubscribed and most of its "graduates" have subsequently braved higher-level math, statistics or economics. At a third innovator, Mills College in California, a pre-calculus program that stresses the necessity of math for many careers has helped make math the most popular subject among the 850 women undergraduates...
Obviously, foreign aid has always been a necessary instrument of U.S. policy. But it has rarely worked when it was used blatantly, or when the U.S. policymakers cast themselves, in the words of Wellesley Soviet Specialist Marshall Goldman, "as super-Platonic wise men." Sociologist David Reisman worries about "populist diplomacy à la William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson" with its admixture of evangelism...
However, students from Boston University, Tufts, MIT and Wellesley plan to lobby for the exemption bill when it is introduced on March 8, True said...
...feminist, an historian, and a Wellesley graduate, I write in response to Gay Seidman's February 9 review of Livia Baker's book, I'm Radcliffe, Fly Me!: The Seven Sisters and the Failure of Women's Education, and in defense of women's colleges...