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...test-takers were teenagers in 2004, compared with 33% in 1991. Worse yet, many students drop out with the idea of taking the GED but don't end up taking it. "They drop out thinking, oh, this will be easy," says Duncan Chaplin, senior researcher with Princeton, NJ-based Mathematica Policy Research. But many dropouts quickly abandon their plans to take the test. "They just don't get around to it," says Chaplin...
First, the most rigorous study of Teach For America to date indicates that Teach For America teachers have a positive impact on student achievement. Mathematica Policy Research compared the academic gains of students taught by Teach For America corps members with the gains of similar students taught by non-Teach For America teachers in the same schools. It found that corps members’ classes made 10 percent more progress in one year in math than is typically expected and slightly exceeded the normal expectation for progress in reading. In addition, the students of Teach For America corps members achieved...
Sources: Feeding Infants & Toddlers Study by Gerber Products Co.; Mathematica Policy Research...
...Cohen considered his most important work to be his 1999 translation of Newton’s Principia Mathematica, which was a collaboration with the late Anne Whitman ’59 and took 15 years to complete...
Which two professors in the physics department would make the best couple? Who is the worst teacher? If tossed from academia, which faculty member would most likely be fired in the “real” world? Last week physics students put aside problem sets, formulae and mathematica to ponder these and 12 other probing questions about Harvard’s physics department faculty on graduate student Jason R. Gallicchio’s website...