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Sociology > Education |
| User: |
"Mark S." |
| Date: |
20 Dec 2005 08:58:43 PM |
| Object: |
Great Expectations. |
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.... Nearly twenty years ago a movie about math class won an Oscar =
nomination. Stand and Deliver told the story of a room full of poor, =
mostly Hispanic potential dropouts and their teacher, Jaime Escalante. =
In the film Mr. Escalante's high school students progressed from not =
knowing arithmetic to mastering calculus in a single term, largely =
because he expected great things of them.=20
In real life it didn't happen that way. Mr. Escalante spent over a =
decade building his math program, including a sequence of feeder courses =
beginning in junior high. The real kids who made it through his =
high-flying calculus class worked for years to get there. ...
Read all of Poor Elijah's (Peter Berger) guest commentary on the =
teaching of elementary mathematics (along with a rejoinder from the =
Irascible Professor) at:
http://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-12-21-05.htm
Sincerely,
Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
Editor and Publisher
The Irascible Professor
http://irascibleprofessor.com
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The Irascible Professor</FONT></DIV>
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