Rogers is a Brooklyn public school teacher skilled at turning his sometimes fidgety fourth graders into avid students.
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The advent of this new millennium is a good time to take stock, to examine ourselves and our universe, to contemplate how far we have come and where we are headed. It is the context in which the hubbub over the millennium makes perfect sense. A sixth-century monk and mathematician, Dionysius Exiguus, or Dennis the Little, wanted to standardize the liturgical calendar, especially Easter. Modern experts believe Dennis' figures were off by a few years. Still, much of the world uses his system, which eventually became the Gregorian calendar, at least for civil, business and international affairs.