Kathryn Calder Best known as a singer and keyboardist with the New Pornographers, Kathryn Calder is also a songwriter on her own, and her new album, "Bright and Vivid" (File Under: Music/NAIL/Allegro), is sweetly ambitious math-rock, put across with folky tunefulness and a girlish effervescence.
The same pattern played out in the 1960s, when schools gripped by a post-Sputnik inferiority complex unveiled an ambitious "new math," only to find, a few years later, that nothing actually changed.
A bipartisan effort pioneered by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, the Common Core approach sets ambitious goals for math, reading and writing skills as children move through school.
But– as much as I love Uber– a new Israeli-based startup called Get Taxi is so ambitious it makes math-based, complex Uber look like a lemonade stand.
But– as much as I love Uber— a new Israeli-based startup called Get Taxi is so ambitious it makes math-based, complex Uber look like a lemonade stand.
Ten schools have ambitious "immersion" programs where math, science and health are taught in a foreign language.
The new evaluation system will be coming online as the schools roll out a curriculum and new tests that conform to the Common Core standards, which set ambitious goals for the math, reading and writing skills that children need to acquire.
Rather, they lay out an ambitious set of goals for the math, reading and writing skills that children should acquire as they move through school.
It involves new laptops for students, new science and math teachers and, the most ambitious component of all, merit pay tied to classroom performance that could add $5,000 or more to a teacher's annual salary.
The law set ambitious goals, enforced through sanctions, to make every student proficient in math and reading.
