During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...
A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...
New University of Delaware alumna Jenna Paltenstein gravitated toward mathematics early, her love for the subject already evident in elementary school. When she got to UD, she took advantage of all it ...
My fifth-grade twins have been at our Title I elementary school since Pre-K and loved it. It’s a small school with dedicated staff who go above and beyond to provide our global majority, ...
GRASS LAKE, MI - Not everyone loves math as much as Lesley Choate does, but she thinks any student can learn to be comfortable with numbers in her classroom. Choate, 37, first fell in love with the ...
When nine-year-old Elizabeth sat down for an after-school math program with Black Girls Love Math, she wasn’t just solving equations — she was finding her safe space. Surrounded by girls who looked ...
This story is part of a series from the Education Reporting Collaborative in partnership with AL.com. At the Erikson Institute, a child-development-focused graduate school in Chicago, this annual ...