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A very important step in improving public schools was announced last week. We hope it works — and we urge West Virginia officials to make that a priority. One major flaw in the federal No Child Left Behind law is that while it requires state school ...
2009-07-12 01:24:00
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MaryAnn Popovich, with LCCC, right, gives Aria Edmons, 12, of Oberlin, some tips while she cuts out shapes from a piece of copper. MORNING JOURNAL/ANNA NORRIS Frank Hall, welding instructor at Southview High School, assists Glenda Atkinson with ...
2009-07-12 03:11:00
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SINGAPORE: Fancy a bit of Dr Langdon-style investigation into the mysteries behind Mona Lisa’s smile? Or perhaps you would like to take on Dan Brown and try your hand in unraveling the brainteasers behind the Vitruvian Man? Well, now’s the chance ...
2009-07-12 06:03:00
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The magic of the Ashes reasserted itself in Cardiff on Sunday evening when England thrillingly saved the first Test against Australia, a game they had spent the best part of five days trying to chuck away. With evening shadows falling across the ...
2009-07-12 05:13:00
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A Boston public school teacher from Natick has received a prestigious presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). The teacher, Erin Flynn, is a science specialist at the John D. Philbrick Elementary School in ...
2009-07-12 02:50:00
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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA has honored a San Mateo resident and longtime San Francisco State University professor for his work mentoring minority students in science. Frank Bayliss was among 22 people nationally to receive the Presidential Award for ...
2009-07-12 04:30:00
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Recently, during the course of some random online reading, I discovered a technical term that neatly fits a set of observations I'm sure are familiar to everyone: "mathematics anxiety". This is not a new term, or a new phenomenon; a measurement ...
2009-07-12 05:35:00
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CiP is a new method of electronics manufacture for circuits and systems. The circuit “board” is a plastic sheet. All components are placed in divots in the sheet. The conductor is screen printed onto a thin cover sheet which is then thermally ...
2009-07-12 06:22:00
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NEW LONDON, Conn. — The following local residents graduated from Connecticut College at the 91st commencement ceremony May 17. Kelly Anne Hamilton of Dover, N.H. was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree. Hamilton was awarded a degree with distinction ...
2009-07-12 11:01:00
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The axe has fallen, and the teaching of Mathematics and Science will revert to Bahasa Malaysia and mother tongue (Chinese and Tamil) from 2012, but measures will be taken to strengthen the mastery of English among students. THE Education Ministry may ...
2009-07-12 06:29:00
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Growing up in China, Jun Lu might have pursued a career in math if his father, a mathematician, hadn't advised against it. His reasoning: Math can be done with little more than a pen, paper and your mind. For 2,000 years, thinkers have had those ...
2009-07-12 05:39:00
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Maryland's public schools are teaching mathematics in such a way that many graduates cannot be placed in entry-level college math classes because they do not have a grasp of the basics, according to education experts and professors. College math ...
2009-07-12 02:18:00
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EACH clear night when the moon is high in the sky, a group of astronomers in New Mexico take aim at our celestial neighbour and blast it repeatedly with pulses of light from a powerful laser. They target suitcase-sized reflectors left on the lunar ...
2009-07-12 05:53:00
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Lost in all the eye-popping news of two weeks ago was an event the Obama administration hoped would garner good press: The first White House celebration of the anniversary of Title IX. The landmark legislation ensuring educational equality for women ...
2009-07-12 05:53:00
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MORGANTOWN — When he was a child, the kid who today prefers to be called Jim rather than anything more formal was ready to learn the rudiments of mathematics, a skill that would serve him throughout his life. “My father, Joe, taught me ...
2009-07-12 03:51:00
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