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To: brushwud who wrote (438644)	12/5/2008 7:52:44 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1574004

brushwud, OK, now we're getting to the real story. The best high schools and prep schools in the U. S. don't require calculus, but the best students in U. S. high schools can take calculus and linear algebra if they want. That's correct. Except linear algebra. I don't know if anyone is offering a lightweight version of it, but, IMO, this is really a college course, if you want to teach it correctly. That's the way New Yorkers described the Regents' exams when I was in college, but I never experienced either so I can't say they're comparable. It may have been something similar, I am not familiar with it yet. It seems to have been watered down substantially, as do all of the US educational standards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Numbers obtained by The New York Sun yesterday also show that the rate of city students earning the Regents diploma has improved significantly over years past ? after the state education department passed new regulations making it easier to earn one. Sixty-eight percent of city students graduated at the Regents level last year, almost double the rate of past years, when it had been languishing at about a third. nysun.com