It was created in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, two math professors at Dartmouth ... Anyone who learned to program on BASIC would be, as he later wrote, “mentally mutilated ...

Kemeny, then the chairman of Dartmouth’s math department ... fundamental tool in teaching computer programming. One student who later benefited from BASIC was Bill Gates, who used a variation ...

no wonder kids without basic math skills were able to slip through the cracks. The school should have seen this coming. When the remedial program’s pilot was announced in September, Harvard’s ...

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