Fortunately, the Loudoun County School Board is expected to hear from Mary Addi on Tuesday, in the course of its last public input session on the application for the Loudoun Math and Information Technology Academy.
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Terence Tao, a University of California, Los Angeles mathematician and winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, has turned his blog into an online graduate math seminar open to the general public.
So political proponents of the stadium have apparently resorted to some bizarre math to paint a rosier picture for the public.
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In 2009, Mr. Bloomberg said the city would go further and close the gap between its public-school students and the rest of the state on math scores.
And presidents from more than 75 of the largest public universities in the country have committed to produce thousands of additional science and math teachers at their institutions.
At Yale, a lot of the courses I took involved complex math and public policy (many of my classmates from Yale went onto careers in non-profit organizations).
Where we used to have the best public school system in the world, now our kids rank 21st in science and 25th in math.
Two big caveats: The College Board math assumes everyone goes to a public college.
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The public schools are either stable or are improving slightly in math and science, and most of our kids live in suburbs, and as of the 2000 census, some 40 percent of blacks and 50 percent of Latinos in metropolitan areas were already in suburbs.
It was impossible it was thought to really truly compete with the Soviet Union in science and math and other areas without a broadly educated public.
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The math is similar whether one chooses an expensive private school, or a more affordable public school.
Among the potential policies: expanding low-cost broadband access, adding math and science classes in public schools and making government data more accessible.
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