PRESS CONFERENCES AND RELEASES
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September 21, 2009

Math for America Announces 2009 Cohort

September 1, 2009

Math for America San Diego Awarded $1.5 Million NSF Noyce Fellowship Grant

August 5, 2009

A Mathematics Trail Surrounds the Rubin Museum of Art

July 2, 2009

Math for America Adds 60 New Fellows

June 2, 2008

Carnegie Launches Math for America Chapter in D.C.

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POLICY

MƒA Founder and Chairman Jim Simons testified before the House Committee on Science and Technology for reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act.

Learning Teams: Creating What's Next, prepared by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have outlined their education agenda for a 21st century education system. Central to this plan is an outline to recruit, retain, and reward an army of new teachers to prepare our children for success in college and the workforce.

Math: What's the Problem? A Special Report from the National Science Foundation.

How Well Are American Students Learning?, a report issued by the Brookings Institute

RESEARCH

A Literature Review on Teacher Retention and Attrition, with a special lens given to mathematics teachers, commissioned by Math for America.

The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007 measures math and science performance in grades 4 and 8.

The Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) recognized MƒA as a Promising Strategy in their report, An American Imperative: Transforming the Recruitment, Retention and Renewal of Our Nation’s Mathematical and Science Teaching Workforce (PDF).

The Philanthropy Roundtable lauds Math for America for its efforts in addressing the shortage of math teachers nationwide in its report, Achieving Teacher and Principal Excellence (PDF).

 
IN THE NEWS
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June 22, 2010

Teaching Scholarships Help Bright Students Become Excellent Teachers (AOL WalletPop)

June 2, 2010

Conversations with a Billionaire (Celebrity High Magazine)

May 21, 2010

ORIE Graduates Choose to Teach, for America (Cornell University News)

May 5, 2010

Hai Lin '10 Awarded Math for America Fellowship (Hamilton College News)


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BLOGS

Health & History: Biking the Underground Railroad
MƒA Fellow Michele Hoang and her students blog on their Underground Railroad bike-trip

Modern Math Teaching
MƒA New Teacher Advisor Treva Chadwell

Math Be Brave
MƒA NY Fellow Jesse Johnson

Washington^Squared
MƒA DC Fellow Katherine Collins

 
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