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...Parietal Math...
...produce impressive numbers of Catholic intellectuals. To get better students for its all-male liberal arts school, B.C. is scouring the nation's blue-chip Catholic high schools for bright kids. The payoff is an honors program of students with average college board scores in verbal and math aptitude of 707 and 712. This year's overall freshman class tops rival Holy Cross with average scores of 605 and 625. To lure its whiz kids, B.C. last year shelled out more than $1,000,000 in financial...
...area and live off campus. Since it is not a tidy residential school, Barnard needs a strong president to give it focus. Miss Park is also concerned with the trend toward early specialization among undergraduates. To deepen liberal learning, she wants to bring in more creative arts, politics, economics, math, philosophy-to produce laymen who can "challenge the specialist for the public good." Her aim is to put "some nobility, some unselfishness of aspiration into the lives of these young people whom knowledge has given such great power...
Margaret W. Stimpson, acting director of admissions, noted that one of the outstanding features of the group which has been accepted for next year's freshman class is the "excellence of public school candidates." It is evident from the applications, she said that math and science in particular are being taught on an increasingly high level in the public high schools. Mrs. Stimpson suggested that this trend is probably a result of the increasing national demand for scientists...
...Cute & Dirty? From California to Connecticut. Mallery has scouted scores of schools to publicize pioneering ventures in everything from astronautics to paleontology. At the Miquon School near Philadelphia, for example, he found a remarkable math program in which expert teachers set up "actual experiences of discovery" and math becomes almost a spoken language. In one rapid-fire dialogue. Mallery records a class of fourth-graders wildly multiplying not just numbers, but numbers that stand for adjectives in a code. Teacher: "Someone is cute and dirty-who is it?" Cute is 5. dirty 13; multiplied they are 65, the digits...