From the College Board - recommended books for college-bound students

After reading Joanne Jacob's post on British schools advocating that their students read 50 books a year, I looked at the College Board's recommended reading lists.  In the section below, the books in blue text are those likely to have been assigned in classes taken by an honors/AP-track graduate of our local high school.  22 out of 101 of the"101 Great Books" were assigned in high school classes, while none of the "Classic Cultural and Historical Texts" texts were.

You can see the entire book list after the jump.

A view from computer science college professors

I hear from a friend who teaches college computer science that many CS educators agree on the following:

1. There is too much emphasis on calculus, and more focus should be placed on discrete mathematics (graph theory, logic, automata theory, etc) and statistics.
2. K-12 education places too much emphasis on memorization at the expense of conceptual understanding.  This leaves college students ill-prepared for their computer science course work.
   

Interesting.

Cross posted at Kitchen Table Math