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PRESS CONFERENCES AND RELEASES

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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NEWSLETTERS

Winter / Spring 2005 MƒA News

Fall 2004 MƒA News

Summer 2004 MƒA News

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

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 their State of the Nation Report 2007: Mathematics (PDF), ACT’s Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) found that only 41 percent of twelfth graders were on target to be ready for college math.