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Adding It Up, Part 2: How to Keep an 'A'

October 30, 2009

Less than a third of the nation’s community college students earn degrees after 3 years. One reason is the large number of students who need remedial classes. Here in New York, 75 percent of fres....


Professor Jorge Perez has been teaching math at Laguardia Community College since 1982 and says he’s trying to empower his students to get through remedial math. (by Beth Fertig)

Confronting Math Fear

October 06, 2009

Community colleges serve almost half of all college students in the nation. Graduation rates are low - hovering around 30 percent after three years - and a majority of students need remedial help, es....


Freaky Math

The Brian Lehrer Show

August 10, 2009

Derrick Niederman, author of Number Freak: From 1 to 200 The Hidden Language of Numbers Revealed, shares his intense love of integers.


What Happens Should Mayoral Control Expire

June 30, 2009

Even with the Senate set to get back to business today, Mayor Bloomberg's administration is considering the unthinkable: what to do if mayoral control does expire. As WNYC's Beth Fertig reports,the e....


Business Group Says Mayoral Control Helps Graduates

March 20, 2009

The president of the pro-business Partnership for New York City says mayoral control has improved the public schools. Kathryn Wylde testified at the city's final state assembly education committee he....


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Is God a Mathematician?

The Leonard Lopate Show

January 12, 2009

Is mathematics a human invention, or is it a design of the universe? Mario Livio, author of Is God a Mathematician?, talks about the debate over the role of mathematics in explaining the universe.

Event:
Mario Livio will be speaking
Mon. Jan. 12 at 7:30 PM
American Museum of Natural History
Hayden Planetarium Space Theater
Central Park West @ 79th Street


Financial Scams

December 22, 2008

Examining some of the new scams that are tailor made for the new millennium and the current financial downturn. ....


Random Rules

The Leonard Lopate Show

August 04, 2008

It’s quintessentially human to think that success or failure can be attributed to a clear and obvious cause. But Leonard Mlodinow believes that randomness and chance play a more profound role than we like to think. His new book is The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives.