A Proposal for Mathematics Education in the Secondary Schools of the United States

1943 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
William D. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Educators ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

The fact that mathematics is so important is not surprising to one who is properly informed as to the contributions which it has made to the other great fields of knowledge, but many people, including some of our general educators, arc still unaware of the strategic place which mathematics really occupies in world affairs today. It should be the business of those of us who are interested primarily in the subject to help to make clear just where and how mathematics can be of real service to the other great branches of learning and what can be done to secure these services by a better teaching of mathematics in the schools. The war emergency has brought out the great importance of mathematics, but even a war is not enough to convince some people as to the value of mathematics in the education of American citizens.

Modern Curriculum Problems in the Teaching of Mathematics in Secondary Schools

1939 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
W. D. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

The United States has more children above fourteen years of age in school than all the other countries of the world. In many communities, we have sixty per cent and in a few cases as high as ninety per cent of the ten million pupils of eligible age in school. High school enrollment has grown five times as fast as the population in general. According to Douglass,

Explorer without a country: the question of Vilhjalmur Stefansson's citizenship

Polar Record ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-241
Author(s):  
Janice Cavell ◽  
Jeff Noakes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dual Citizenship ◽  
American Citizen ◽  
American Citizenship ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

ABSTRACTConfusion has long existed on the subject of Vilhjalmur Stefansson's citizenship. A Canadian (that is, a British subject) by birth, Stefansson was brought up and educated in the United States. When his father became an American citizen in 1887, according to the laws of the time Stefansson too became an American. Dual citizenship was not then permitted by either the British or the American laws. Therefore, Stefansson was no longer a British subject. After he took command of the government sponsored Canadian Arctic Expedition in 1913, Stefansson was careful to give the impression that his status had never changed. Although Stefansson swore an oath of allegiance to King George V in May 1913, he did not take the other steps that would have been required to restore him to being Canadian. But, by an American act passed in 1907, this oath meant the loss of Stefansson's American citizenship. In the 1930s American officials informed Stefansson that he must apply for naturalisation in order to regain it. From 1913 until he received his American citizenship papers in 1937, Stefansson was a man without a country.

28 USC § 1782—looking for consensus

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-345
Author(s):  
David J Stute
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Arbitral Tribunal ◽  
Civil Proceedings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract Since the 1948 enactment of 28 USC § 1782 in the United States, no consensus has emerged as to the availability of federal court discovery to parties in private foreign or international arbitral proceedings. This year, within months of one another, six federal courts have issued rulings that are widely inconsistent on the availability of section 1782 discovery. The courts have ruled that a proceeding before a private international arbitral tribunal is eligible for section 1782 discovery; that, categorically, no such discovery is available; that the definition of private arbitral tribunal applies to CIETAC; and that discovery is available by virtue of a party’s parallel pursuit of discovery through foreign civil proceedings. As these cases demonstrate, recent US court decisions have brought no predictability, let alone certainty, to the subject. Congress, on the other hand, could and should amend the statute so as to include private tribunals in the scope of section 1782. This article discusses the case law’s state of disarray; proposes a legislative solution; considers the proposed amendment’s merits; and advocates for Congress to act.

Why Teach About Congress

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 12-14
Author(s):  
Roger Davidson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
Will Rogers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The U.S

Political scientists' long-standing love affair with the United States Congress no doubt baffles people outside the profession. By the same token, the popularity of courses on Congress is not fully understood. Articles and monographs on the subject pour out at a phenomenal rate, and students receive unique benefits from courses on the subject year after year. Still the question is posed: Why so much attention to the U.S. Congress?Much of the puzzlement arises from Congress's persistent image problem. The other branches of government have nothing quite like the comic image of Senator Snort, the florid and incompetent windbag, or Congressman Bob Forehead, the bland and media-driven founder of the "JFK Look-Alike Caucus." Pundits and humorists — from Mark Twain and Will Rogers to Johnny Carson, from Thomas Nast to Garry Trudeau — find Congress an inexhaustible source of raw material. Running down Congress, it seems, is a leading national pastime.

Impact of Domestic Political Factors on Canadian-American Relations: Canada

1974 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The major difference between Canadians and Americans on the subject of their relationship is in the intensity of their perceptions. There is bound to be conflict between a people who regard the relationship as critical and those who have scarcely noticed the other country. Firmly fixed in the Canadian view is the idea that a special relationship has come to an end. When the British contemplated the end of their special relationship with the United States, they were interested in an alternative—association with the European Economic Community (EEC). The problem for Canadians is that no alternative association seems clear, attractive, or promising. In light of their relative comfort in the energy crisis of 1973, however, the need for any special relationship has seemed less urgent.

Capsule History of the NCTM

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Julius H. Hlavaty
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Council ◽  
History Of Mathematics Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The history of mathematics education in America is the story of a long and exciting adventure. It is the subject of a forthcoming NCTM Yearbook, A History of Mathematics Education in the United States and Canada. The following is a capsule account of the direct involvements and the tangential contacts of the National Council with that history during the past fifty years.

Notes on Encyrtidae (Hym.-Chalcidoidea) bred from Psyllids, with Description of a New Species

1926 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Gahan ◽  
J. Waterston
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Joint Paper ◽  
United States National Museum ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A New Species

Specimens of the interesting new species described herewith came into the hands of both authors of this paper at about the same time from the same source, and were determined by each as new to science. Each being in ignorance of the fact that the other had received specimens, both proceeded to describe it. Before either description was published, however, the duplication was discovered through correspondence, and the description has been made the subject of this joint paper. The type and allotype specimens are in the United States National Museum, but paratypes are in the British Museum as stated below.

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