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• news flash: girls are as good as boys when it comes to math

  If women aren't going into technology and science career fields, it is not because they lack math apptitude. New research finds no difference between the average math scores of boys and girls in the grades 2 through 11. You can find a link to the study Read More... Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 3:03 PM by Lee_Teschler | 0 Comments Filed under: education, mathematics

• Did you have instructors who were dolts?

  Here's a situation a lot of us have experienced: You take a class that gives you headaches. After a lot of soul searching, you start to wonder if the problem is not you and not the material, but the instructor. Well, the problem might well have been a Read More... Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 3:14 PM by Lee_Teschler | 0 Comments Filed under: education

• It takes 11 years to break even after college

  It takes the average college student at a public university about 11 years to break even after paying for school and missing about four years worth of earning power. For those attending more pricey private schools, the breakeven point comes after about Read More... Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 2:16 PM by Lee_Teschler | 0 Comments Filed under: education

• math panel says: emphasize fractions

  Readers of my editorials may recall one piece wherein I mentioned the story of a 1980s presidential candidate who reportedly had to ask his press entourage how to calculate the decimal equivalent of 3/7, to help his son with a home work problem. With Read More... Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 4:10 PM by Lee_Teschler | 0 Comments Filed under: education, mathematics

• MIT eliminates tuition for families earning below $75,000

  Not only that, they will not figure in the value of your home when calculating net worth. An item from the Chronicle of Higher Education on this development is interesting for the commentary it got from posters reacting to the news. http://chronicle.com/news/article/4107/mit-eliminates-tuition-for-students-whose-families-earn-less-than-75000?utm_source=at&utm_medium=e Read More... Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 2:26 PM by Lee_Teschler | 0 Comments Filed under: education, MIT

• More on remedial college math: Are college students confounded by simple algebra?

  Here is another interesting item from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Sixty professors at the University of Washington have signed an open letter to the Legislature complaining that college freshmen are “confounded by simple algebra. Interestingly, Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:18 PM by Lee_Teschler | 0 Comments Filed under: education, algebra

• headline:A Third of Public-School Students in Mass. Need Remediation at College

  The headline from the news blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education screams that a third of public school students need remediation at college. Read the item, though, and it is clear that the there is less to the headline than meets the eye, and the Read More... Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 2:12 PM by Lee_Teschler | 0 Comments Filed under: education, college, calculus