In 1943, Dorothy Vaughan, a 32 - year -
old high school mathematics teacher, started a new job.
Not exact matches
It's also part of the National STEM
School Education Strategy 2016 - 2026 and comes at a time when Australian student performance in maths is flatlining, a substantial proportion of Australian 15 - year -
olds are failing to meet the National Proficient Standard, and Year 12
high - level
mathematics participation is declining.
Despite substantially more
high -
school students taking more difficult
mathematics courses between 1978 and 2004, the overall
mathematics scores for 17 - year -
olds in that period remained unchanged.
Because children born to teenage mothers are prone to develop problems that inhibit academic success, this trend could have contributed to both the increases in the
mathematics skills of 13 - year -
olds and to an increase in the
high school graduation rate.
Eithne J. Smith, a remedial -
mathematics teacher at Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical
High School, spent hours last year printing out
old test questions from state - mandated exams and then cutting and pasting together items on the topics that gave her students trouble.
Annual assessment in English / language arts and
mathematics for students in grades 3 - 8 and once in
high school remains the same as the
old law.