Examines the individual self of the writer and the growth of Singaporean poetry in relation to the determining pressures of the past and present. The way that the colonial experience and the political, economic, intellectual, and psychological recovery from that experience have affected the self-definition of the poet is explored. (28 references)…

Using multivariate discriminant analysis and the data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 1999, this paper made 5 individual comparisons between the U.S. middle school system and 5 Asian middle school systems, which have typically been top ranked in mathematics and science achievement scores. The discriminant…