NATION IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Plan Seeks to Make Math Interesting
The Ford Foundation announced in New York a five-year, $10-million program to help schools find ways to make mathematics education more interesting to poor children. The idea is to develop teaching methods that go beyond boring drills and memorization. The program, called Project QUASAR, is to begin next spring in grades four through eight in five as-yet unselected schools in impoverished communities and will be expanded to at least 10 more schools by 1991-92. It is being administered by a division of the University of Pittsburgh.
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