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P:Why does Johnny hate his math? The Carnegie Corporation of New York suggested one reason. In a special survey, the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J. found that "although all states require education courses for secondary mathematics teachers, a third of the states require no mathematics for certification of math teachers . . . In the majority of instances, a prospective elementary-school teacher can enter a teachers college without any credits in secondary-school math. In most states a teacher can be certified to teach elementary-school math without any work in math at the college level." "Under such circumstances," adds the corporation, "it is no surprise that one professor states: 'Elementary teachers, for the most part, are ignorant of the mathematical basis of arithmetic.' " Adds another professor about secondary-school math teachers: "They are not as good as our run-of-mine juniors."

P:Columbia College, one of eleven campuses that began taking in bright 16-year-olds as freshmen four years ago, told just how its first graduates had done. Of 51 accepted, only eight dropped out, but these did so mostly for emotional reasons. Those who graduated had a 23% higher representation in the top fifth of the class than ordinary students. One out of five became a Phi Beta Kappa.

P:Appointment of the week: Professor John H. Franklin, 41, of Howard University, to the chairmanship of Brooklyn College's history department--the first time a Negro has ever been made head of a department at Brooklyn.

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