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Academic work is not skimped: Dunbar requires four years of English, three years of science and social studies, two years of mathematics. The problem is how to make this palatable for future beauticians and bricklayers. Dunbar has a handy solution: it puts all machinist students in the same math class, for example, so the teacher can deal not only with abstractions but also with applications of math to machine tools. Dunbar's graduates also acquire enough academic work to enter college if they wish to (10% to 15% do ). Says Principal Joseph J. Dixon: "We never want to close...
Erstwhile math whizzes who think the CRIMSON has erred are wron. A Jump from 55 per cent to 60 per cent is (approximately) a 10 per cent increase. You can work it out on your own electric slide rule: the five percentage point rise divided by the old figure of 55 per cent equals the per cent of increase, namely 090909...or roughly 10 per cent...
Paradoxically, all the hard work is easier than it looks. "The students are no brighter," says veteran French Teacher Lawrence Garrett of Denver's East High School. "They have the benefit of better guidance, testing and prodding." New "discovery" approaches in math, physics and chemistry, for example, make learning more alluring. TV has apparently boosted vocabularies and widened horizons. Cheap paperbacks have put poets and philosophers in any hip pocket. Along with language labs that make drill palatable go new courses in the techniques of studying. "They have learned how to read rapidly, how to summarize...
...agree that the real elite of the organization are those who now major in Social Relations. Humanities and Social Science majors are also looked upon with favor. Math majors are suspect as possible subversives, but may prove their loyalty by hissing loudly every time a math professor utters the word 'physics...
Crash Mission. Even if a school has money, it usually hungers for qualified students. At Texas Southern University, for example, 90% of the freshmen have to take remedial math or English or both. Half the freshman class of 1,000 drops out, and only about one-fourth lasts to graduation. About half the graduates of Negro colleges become schoolteachers. So goes the vicious circle: poor teachers turning out poor students, who then become poor teachers turning out poor students...