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Teaching Scholarships Help Bright Students Become Excellent Teachers AOL WalletPop June 22, 2010 By Megan Cottrell Ever since she watched an inner-city teacher change the lives of his calculus students in the movie "Stand and Deliver", Rita Soledad Fernandez knew she wanted to be a math teacher. "I see education as a way of social change," Fernandez said in an interview with WalletPop. "I wanted to teach low-income students and provide them with the same high-qual

2010-06-22T14:11:00Z 2010-06-02T21:03:00Z 2010-06-02T21:03:00Z

Conversations with a Billionaire Celebrity High Magazine Interview with Jim Simons, MƒA Founder and Chairman June 2010

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ORIE Graduates Choose to Teach, for America Cornell University, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering News May 21, 2010 While next fall many of their classmates will be working in manufacturing, consulting or finance, two recent ORIE graduates will be teaching in high schools. Both attended the same high school in Hawai'i before coming to Cornell. Megan Akamine Megan Akamine '10 has been selected for the Teach for America Corps. After training at a Teach for Ame

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Hai Lin '10 Awarded Math for America Fellowship Hamilton College News May 5, 2010 Hai Lin ’10 has been awarded a national Math for America Fellowship. Lin, a mathematics major, is the first Hamilton student to receive the award. The Fellowship provides a full tuition scholarship, annual stipends of up to $100,000 over five years, in addition to a full-time teacher’s salary and mentoring and professional development services. Founded in 2004, Math for America (MƒA) is a priva

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New Teacher Pipelines Narrow As Hiring Freeze Continues GothamSchools April 27, 2010 By Anna Phillips   For years, the number of new teachers entering the city’s job market by way of alternative certification programs has been in the thousands. But this year the flood has slowed to a trickle. When Chancellor Joel Klein announced a teacher hiring freeze last year, organizations that recruit and train new teachers, such as Teach for America and New York City’s Teaching Fell

2010-04-27T15:05:00Z 2010-04-21T19:24:00Z 2010-04-21T19:24:00Z

Morgan Stanley Quant Muller Wins Wall Street Poker Night Title Bloomberg April 21, 2010 By Mason Levinson April 21 (Bloomberg) -- Peter Muller, who founded and leads Morgan Stanley’s quantitative investment unit, bested 104 players last week to win the annual Wall Street Poker Night. His prize: knowing that he helped raise $1.5 million for Math for America, a charitable organization dedicated to making the math skills of public school students better by improving instruction. “T

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To Guide New Math Teachers, A Program Creates a Warning List GothamSchools April 13, 2010 By Anna Phillips A teacher training program is warning its recruits to stay away from certain New York City schools, according to a list obtained by GothamSchools. The list, compiled by Math for America and sent to its fellows, includes a mix of new schools created under Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and schools that have been troubled for years. Math for America is a program that recruits and trai

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The U.S. Math Teaching Crisis: 'The Elephant in the Room' Teacher Magazine blogs March 7, 2010 By Anthony Rebora Live from the Celebration of Teaching and Learning conference, New York By far the most sobering session I attended at this conference was a conversation between PBS newsman David Brancaccio and Jim Simons, the founder of a teacher-recruitment program called Math for America. Simons is a mathematician who made fortune as the CEO of Renaissance Technologies, a private investment

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Reversing Decline in Space Exploration The Hill March 1, 2010 Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) In responding to the competitive global economy, China and India don’t hesitate to encourage their top students to pursue science and math careers. They know that it is this expertise that will dictate their countries’ futures. Unfortunately, these are the careers in which America is losing ground, calling into question our own future. The problems with U.S. test scores and with recruiting t

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Math Teachers Add Up $20k in Stipends Contra Costa Times February 8, 2010 By Mediha Fejzagic DiMartino, Staff Writer MONTCLAIR - Chelsea Diefenbach's idea of fun time is curling up with a good book - a math book that is. "This is how my brain works," said Diefenbach, a first-year math teacher at Montclair High School. "I do most things in equations." Signing up for Math for America Fellowship program added up for Diefenbach. Following college, the math major was awarded

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Math Stimulus Carnegie Science Newsletter Fall 2009

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Problem Solving American University, College of Arts & Sciences: Connections Fall 2009 By Colin Redick

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After the Freeze The City's Bid to Save Cash Leaves New Teachers Out in the Cold Village Voice October 27, 2009 By Philissa Cramer and Anna Phillips Emily Pellman was on the verge of fulfilling her dream of becoming a public school science teacher when the door to getting her own classroom was closed in her face. Last May, the 24-year-old Pellman was weeks away from graduating from New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, to which the city was paying her tuition in exchange f

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Nonprofit Group Takes on Math Problem Improving, retaining teachers are its goals San Diego Union-Tribune October 5, 2009 By Bruce Lieberman Organizing her students in groups of three, Escondido High School teacher Susan Amoroso focused the chatty teenagers on algebra. The goal for the day: Students will be able to look at graphs and describe what they see. “They're all graphs of speed over time,” Amoroso said as she handed out a work sheet. “You want to see what this lin

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Federal Grant Helps Math for America L.A. USC News September 24, 2009 By Andrea Bennett Math for America Los Angeles has been awarded $1.5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds through a National Science Foundation grant. The five-year grant allows the program to recruit and accept larger cohorts for years to come, said Pam Mason, executive director of Math for America L.A. As a partnership among the USC Rossier School of Education, Claremont Graduate University and Harve

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San Diego non-profit proves math education matters San Diego News Network September 9, 2009 By Marsha Sutton Increased awareness of the shortage of qualified high school math and science teachers has spawned innovative approaches aimed at filling the need. An MfA SD teacher works with students at a February workshop. (Courtesy of MƒA SD) One group, Math for America San Diego , has been rewarded for its ground-breaking work to improve math education in secondary public s

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$1.5 Million Goes to Recruit, Train New Math Teachers KPBS San Diego September 1, 2009 By Ana Tintocalis SAN DIEGO — The National Science Foundation is giving $1.5 million to a San Diego-based program that's trying to get new math teachers into struggling schools. Math For America San Diego secured the grant. The program's goal is to recruit and train college graduates and professionals so they become exceptional math teachers in San Diego County's lowest performing high schools. Recr

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National Science Foundation Awards Math For America Program $1.5 Million Grant Claremont Graduate University News & Events Thursday, June 25, 2009 The Los Angeles-based Math For America program--a collaboration between Claremont Graduate University, Harvey Mudd College and USC--was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation this week. Math For America was established by businessman Jim Simons as a funding arm to incentivize college graduates to become math teachers

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Three from Marist Named Math for America Fellows Press Release, Marist Public Affairs POUGHKEEPSIE - Two graduating Marist college seniors and one alumna have been awarded "Math for America" fellowships and will spend the next five years working to improve the quality of math education in New York City schools. Only 60 such fellowships were awarded nationally. Chosen for the prestigious program were graduating seniors Rachel Masciotti of Yonkers, and Steven Viola of Nesconset, and

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$1.5 Million NSF Grant to Fund First D.C. Math for America Fellows at American University American University News June 15, 2009 By Maggie Barrett In mathematical terms, one might say the need for skilled math teachers > (is greater than) the number of skilled math teachers in Washington, D.C., public schools. According to the 2007 results of the National Assessment of Student Progress, only 9 percent of eighth-grade students in D.C. public schools qualified as proficient or above profic

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Comedy for Teachers Teacher Magazine, Professional Development Sourcebook March 16, 2009 By Jeff Lambert An alternative-certification program that recruits math teachers believes educators could learn a thing or two about classroom management from stand-up comics. Comedians, the program's leaders reason, struggle in front of tough crowds just like teachers, and their bad jokes can flop just like a lesson plan. But a good stand-up knows how to connect with an audience. To help its teachers d

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John Ewing Retires from the AMS Notices of the AMS, January 2009 Allyn Jackson In 1996, when John Ewing had been AMS executive director for about a year, several Russian translation journals that the Society had been publishing pulled out and went to other publishers. This move, coming in the wake of the many upheavals in the Russian mathematical community after the fall of the Soviet Union , meant a US$1.5 million loss in income for the AMS—a substantial chunk of the Society

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Math Schtick Ed Week Blogs By Jeff Lambert November 24, 2008 Math for America, a non-profit that recruits math teachers, believes teachers could learn a thing or two about classroom management from stand-up comedians, according to New York magazine. Comedians, like teachers, struggle in front of tough crowds and their bad jokes can flop just like a lesson plan, but a good comedian knows how to get a laugh. In order to help math teachers connect with their audiences, the non-profit is offer

2008-11-24T16:59:00Z 2008-10-23T18:31:00Z 2008-10-23T18:31:00Z

The New Math Challenge in America Los Angeles Times Blog David Drew, a professor of education at Claremont Graduate University, has written extensively about math and science. He writes: California is about to mandate that all eighth-grade students must pass an algebra test. The policy makers seem to have admirable goals. But they are focusing on diagnosis, not cure. We already know what the problem is.It’s time to fix it. The Challenge The global economy demands mastery of tec

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Importance of Doing the Math USC News Wednesday, 15 October 2008 Written by Andrea Bennett Los Angeles, California - Few can dispute that capable math teachers in the classroom are keys to the next generation’s ability to keep the U.S. economy healthy and globally competitive. But the pool of highly qualified math teaching talent has been shrinking, and there are incentives for math-savvy instructors to pursue fields other than teaching. Math for America Los Angeles launched t

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AMS Director Ewing to Head Math for America American Mathematical Society July 23, 2008 The Board of Trustees of the American Mathematical Society announces that John H. Ewing, who has served as Executive Director of the Society since 1995, will become Executive Director for the new national program Math for America in early 2009. During the course of his service for the AMS, Ewing has overseen many changes in the operations and programs of the Society. MathSciNet, born in 1996, underwent man

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Math for America launches D.C. chapter Washington Post Thursday, July 10, 2008 In an effort to improve mathematics education in the Washington area, the Carnegie Institution's Academy for Science Education has launched a Math for America chapter in the District. The chapter will recruit, train and mentor 34 fellows over five years, as well as place teachers in District schools. Math for America, established in 2004 by mathematician James H. Simons, is a nonprofit organization aimed at imp

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House Gives $400 Million to Four Science Agencies Science 27 Vol. 320. no. 5884, p. 1706 DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5884.1706b June 2008 By Jeffrey Mervis Science agencies are barely a footnote in the $186 billion supplemental spending bill to continue funding the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan approved by the House of Representatives last week. But the footnote includes a welcome bump-up of $400 million for four agencies whose research budgets were flattened late last year b

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A Good Week for Science ScienceNOW Daily News 20 June 2008 By Adrian Cho, Jocelyn Kaiser, Eli Kintisch, Andrew Lawler, Jeffrey Mervis, and Erik Stokstad A third of a loaf is better than nothing. That's the feeling among the U.S. research community after the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday to boost the current budgets of four key science agencies by $337 million. Although it was less than lobbyists had hoped, it's probably more likely to happen than the sizeable budget

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Carnegie Institution to help improve math instruction The Associated Press 2008-06-03 01:47:07.0 Current rank: # 102 of 7,940 WASHINGTON - The Carnegie Institution for Science is starting a fellowship program to improve math education in the D.C. public and charter schools. Officials say 34 fellows will be recruited and trained over five years in partnership with the Math for America program. The fellows will earn a master's degree in teaching at American University and a teaching certifi

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Stuck in the ‘middle’ — and loving it New York Teacher May 18, 2008 by Ellie Spielberg “Middle school is really crazy. The kids are all over the place all the time. I love teaching in a middle school,” said Robert Andruskiewicz. The brand new teacher, fresh out of Math for America, has found his calling at the brand new MS 588, the Middle School for Art and Philosophy, in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, housed in the building of IS 252, which is being ph

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OPINION: Triumphs and Struggles in a Mathematics Classroom Notices of the AMS 557 May 2008   by Jesse Johnson, New Design High School, New York City, Math for America Newton Fellow I first met JR two years ago in his 9th grade year when I was student teaching. He was a small kid on a skateboard, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Puerto Rican doppelganger. Funny, manipulative, and bright, he was a serious troublemaker, distracted and distracting in the classroom. In his 10th grade year, h

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Making Math Pay [PDF] USA Today January 29, 2008

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Simons at Renaissance Cracks Code, Doubling Assets Bloomberg Markets Magazine November 27, 2007 By Richard Teitelbaum Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- On a hot afternoon in September, Renaissance Technologies LLC founder Jim Simons is too busy to take a phone call. It is, he says, from Cumrun Vafa, a preeminent Harvard University professor and expert on string theory, which describes the building blocks of the universe as extended one-dimensional filaments. ``Get another time when I can talk to him

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HMC President Works with Math for America The Student Life news October 19, 2007 By Cindy S. Hernandez Maria Klawe, the Harvey Mudd College president, is helping to lead the fund-raising effort of a group called Math for America Los Angeles (MfALA). Established in 2004 by billionaire and former math professor James Simons, the president of the New York-based Renaissance Technologies investment firm, Math for America (MfA) is a group that aims to improve the mathematics education in public

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Teaching teachers to love teaching math USC partners with other colleges to support a teacher recruitment and training program. Daily Trojan 10/9/07 By Ashley Archibald As news outlets across the country bemoan American schools' subpar performance in math and science, the cry for increased math and science education seems ultimately ignored. In an effort to address the state of math education, USC is forming a partnership with Math for America, a New York-based teacher training program de

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Opinion: Math for America Rightly Rewards Much-Needed Teachers Mercury News October 4, 2007 Take a seat in most of the math classes in U.S. schools and you'll see that our nation is in deep trouble. From elementary to high school classrooms, America's students and teachers are lagging behind in mathematics like never before. Unless we take dramatic action, we'll fall farther behind than we were on Oct. 4, 1957, when the former Soviet Union beat us into space by launching Sputnik, the first

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Opportunities for Math and Science Teachers Increase Edweek September 13, 2007 By Lauren Muscarella With shortages of math and science teachers continuing across the nation, some nonprofit organizations are stepping in to help bring more people who can teach these subjects into the classroom. Aspiring teachers still seeking a concentration should be aware of funding and support opportunities available. Preliminary figures for 2007 show a considerable shortage of math and science teachers

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Math program sparks U.S. bill City education plan begun by Long Island businessman is helping pave way for national teaching incentive Newsday August 5, 2007 By Aaron Cahall WASHINGTON - James Simons watched each year as America’s students fell further behind in math and science. Finally, in 2004, he acted. Simons, a mathematician, former professor and top Long Island hedge fund manager, created Math for America, a program designed to turn the best and brightest math and science prof

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Better math education critical to U.S. competitiveness, says hedge fund guru Associated Press Archive May 19, 2007 By MADLEN READ AP Business Writer James Simons knows a thing or two about the laws of supply and demand. He has been running the successful Renaissance Technologies investment firm for more than 20 years. And from what he's seen in his own children's schooling and his firm's workforce, Simons says some basic rules of economics need to be applied to U.S. education: Those who a

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New York City Programs Provide a Model for National Teaching Corps Notices of the AMS March 2007 By Allyn Jackson When James Simons received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1962 from Berkeley, he was the first person to finish a doctorate under the National Defense Education Act. The NDEA had been launched just four years earlier and was one of several initiatives taken by the U.S. government after the Soviet Union’s launching of the Sputnik satellite. “I was a beneficiary of a prog

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Innovation America Tops Governors' Meeting Agenda Nation's Governors Set to Convene in Washington for NGA Winter Meeting National Governors Association February 20, 2007 WASHINGTON—The nation's governors will gather in Washington, D.C. later this month for the 2007 National Governors Association (NGA) Winter Meeting. Beginning Saturday, Feb. 24, a bipartisan group of governors from the U.S. states and territories will come together for four days of meetings at the J.W. Marriott Hotel.

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Way Beyond Hedge Fund Hotshot CNBC February 6, 2007 James Simons, the founder of Renaissance Technologies, is one of the most interesting people I've interviewed -- ever. It's not just because he is a veritable legend in the world of investing. His flagship Medallion fund posted returns in the high 40- 50 percent range in 2006. Since 1989, it's posted average annual returns of 35%, topping hedge fund luminaries Paul Tudor Jones and George Soros. It's not just because he created what could b

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Educators Tell Governors To Focus On Math And Science Congress Daily February 26, 2007 By Andy Leonatti Leaders in technology and education are warning governors that students are falling dangerously behind in math and science education and innovation. Governors, meanwhile, are looking to partner with business to help with technological changes. At the National Governors Association gathering, a panel Sunday emphasized making math and science teaching jobs more attractive to graduate stude

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Do Social Issues Belong in Math Class? The New York Sun January 24, 2007 By Gary Shapiro Can social and economic justice issues be integrated into mathematics curricula? Radical Math, Long Island University, and Math for America, a nonprofit founded by a Wall Street titan, James Simons, who is president of Renaissance Technologies, are sponsoring such a conference in April to explore such issues called "Creating Balance in an Unjust World." The conference will feature both a Har

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SHORTAGE OF TOP-NOTCH MATH AND SCIENCE GRADS HAMPERING ROCHESTER AREA BUSINESS AND JOB GROWTH SCHUMER UNVEILS GROUNDBREAKING NATIONAL INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE MATH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION Sweeping Legislation Would Complement Senator’s Drive to Make Rochester a National Math and Science Center of Excellence January 16, 2007 Standing At JML Optical, Schumer Announces ‘Math For America’ Program To Recruit Best And Brightest To Become Math And Science Teachers In an Ideas Econ

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Philanthropist Jim Simons Mathematician, gentleman, genius with 'extraordinary vision' The Village Times Herald January 5, 2007 By Peter C. Mastrosimone Few citizens have the means to supplement the federal budget; fewer still the will — and even fewer have the vision to guide an endowment in just the right direction to create the maximum impact. But Jim Simons, the mathematician, philanthropist and hedge fund wizard, has the rare combination of all three attributes. He demonstrated

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Math for America By Lee C. Umphrey The Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter (AWM) January – February 2007   Though the quality of math and science teachers in America’s public schools is undergoing a steady national decline, a program in New York City is addressing the issue directly. Since its inception in 2004, Math for America (MfA), a private non-profit organization dedicated to significantly improving mathematics education in out nati

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New Initiatives Urge Changes In Science, Math Education Columbia Spectator 12/06/06 By Olivia Rosane Dozens of organizations converged on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to demand Congress to increase attention to math and science education. Citing statistics indicating that American public school students just aren't competing in math and science with their international counterparts, the advocacy groups urged senators to pass the National Competitiveness Investment Act. This is just one of many

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Putting His Money Where His Math Is A billionaire ex-mathematician believes he has a simple formula for improving math education and making America more competitive. SeedMagazine.com September 19, 2006 By Joshua Roebke James Simons has a considerable amount of money. He's the head of the top-performing hedge fund in the world, Renaissance Technologies Corporation, which he started after leaving a successful academic career in mathematics. More compelling than Simon's acquisition of wealth

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Math for America and the Math Science Teaching Corps Notices of the AMS September 1, 2006 By Irwin Kra We American mathematicians have known for years how poorly our high school students rank on international mathematics assessments such as the TIMSS (Third International Mathematics and Science Study) and PISA (Programme for International Student Assemssment). Now a November 2005 study by the American Institute of Research shows that not just our high school students are behind the interna

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Technology, Education, and the Single Salary Schedule The Notice May 2006 By C.E. Larson It is due to scientific progress and technological innovation, more than any other reason, that crop yields have gone up, that starvation has decreased, that human longevity has increased, and that the material conditions of our lives have continually improved. Our best hope for addressing resource scarcity, plagues, and other less forseeable disasters is continued scientific and technological progress

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It pays to be a math teacher! WABC-TV Monday, February 20, 2006 By Art McFarland In tonight's extra, the crisis in math education has a solution. In New York City, nearly 700 math teachers aren't certified in the subject. It's a national problem too, and was even cited in the president's State of the Union message. Eyewitness News Education Reporter Art McFarland shows us a program to change that, which could become a model across the country. Giselle George teaches 8th grade pre-algebr

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Mathematics Teaching and American Competitiveness Focus February 2006 By Irwin Kra and W. Garner Robinson Only rarely does the same issue affect both our economic well being and the very nature of our democracy. The United States is beginning to lose its competitive edge in science and technological innovation. After creating much of the Internet, we are now 16th globally in broadband deployment. In 2004 China exported $31 billion more in information technology than we did. The US graduate

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Space race cited in push for math teachers Associated Press 1/30/06 By Sharon Theimer WASHINGTON — Business and science groups are reviving images of the Cold War space race in an effort to persuade lawmakers to spend millions to recruit and train high-caliber math teachers. They argue that, just as a stronger focus on math helped the United States top the Soviet Sputnik launch by putting a man on the moon, the country needs to improve math education to win an economic race with Chi

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IBM Nudges Employees to Teach IBM is handing out scholarships to employees that choose to leave the company and become science and math teachers. CFO.com September 16, 2005 By Stephen Traub A growing number of companies are acknowledging that they must take an active role in improving the quality of education in the United States. Their concern: In the future, they may be unable to find enough qualified people for technical positions that require strong backgrounds in subjects such as math

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IBM, ExxonMobil to Boost Math, Science Think & Ask September 2005 While the federal government (the public sector's education watchdog) has its hands full managing Iraq, Afghanistan, and now the Gulf Coast of the United States; the corporate world is stepping-up its efforts to improve pre-college education. Math and science scores for high school students in the United States is at the bottom of scores for 21 industrialized nations. Students in the United States spend half the amount o

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How the high fives made it Times Online May 28, 2005 EDWARD LAMPERT, ESL Investments, $1.02 billion: Lampert was kidnapped at gunpoint in January 2003 and held for two days until he escaped. His kidnappers were caught when they used his credit card to order pizza. He started onWall Street as an arbitrageur at Goldman Sachs under Robert Rubin, the former US Treasury secretary, and left in 1988 to found ESL. Lampert modelled his career Warren Buffett’s. Last year he took control of Kmar

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'Good News, Bad News' About U.S. Students Released Washington Post Wednesday, December 15, 2004 By Michael Dobbs - Washington Post Staff Writer American eighth-grade students have made significant gains in math and science compared with their worldwide counterparts, but performance at the fourth-grade level appears to have reached a plateau, according to a major international study released yesterday. Educators described the results of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science S

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Math teacher pay doesn't add up The Christian Science Monitor December 13, 2004 By Louis V. Gerstner Jr. NEW YORK - Consider this word problem: If a nation already has shortages of math teachers, millions of existing teachers are on the verge of retirement, and the average graduate with a degree in math, engineering, or science can make $30,000 to $40,000 more per year going to work at Dell, 3M, or IBM than at his or her local public school, what will it take for our schools to attract the

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Students to bring math to city kids Washington Square News 11/30/04 By Ripa Ajmera Education, which provides full scholarships to graduate students in return for a four-year stint teaching math at New York City public high schools. The students will receive a master's of education from NYU, as well as $90,000 stipends from Math for America, a nonprofit foundation created earlier this year to improve math education in public schools. Math for America announced this month that it will spen

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Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: $25 Million To Train Math Teachers The New York Times November 18, 2004 Math for America, a nonprofit foundation, announced yesterday that it would spend $25 million to train 180 high school math teachers and supplement their pay for four years in an effort to close the math gap between the United States and other industrialized nations. The foundation was created earlier this year by James Simons, a former math professor at the State University of New

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EDUCATION PROGRAM, Funds top teachers = success, Nonprofit seeks to recruit, train and retain top qualified math instructors in city schools   Newsday - Long Island, N.Y.   Nov 18, 2004   By WIL CRUZ. STAFF WRITER   Do the math: What does $25 million and 180 new teachers get you? For the city Department of Education it could add up to good news in its effort to recruit and retain math teachers. A nonprofit foundation said yesterday it would use

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Math fellowships to boost public schools NewYorkBusiness.com November 17, 2004 By Miriam Kreinin Souccar New York City high schools will receive 180 highly qualified math teachers over the next four years, with a new privately funded $25 million program to help improve math education in the city. New York City high schools will receive 180 highly qualified math teachers over the next four years, with a new privately funded $25 million program to help improve math education in the city. T

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$25M A Plus to Add New Teachers Daily News November 17, 2004 By JOE WILLIAMS This is not fuzzy math. The Department of Education will announce today that it will use a private $25 million grant to lure scores of new math teachers into city schools. The project, funded by Math for America, will target 180 recent college graduates with exceptional math skills and offer them lucrative incentives to teach in the city. In addition to the new hires salaries, the fellowship program would give

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PSU grad wins math scholarship The Digital Collegian Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004 By Kristin Colella - Collegian Staff Writer A Penn State graduate was recently selected by the Newton Fellowship Program, a division of Math for America, to earn a full-paid scholarship toward a master's degree and the opportunity to teach high school math. Beth Morgan, a 2004 graduate, was one of 13 applicants chosen from a pool of more than 60 to participate in the program. Morgan is currently studying for her m

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A+ Math Fellowship Multiple Perks to Add Talented Teachers DAILY NEWS MAY 23, 2004 By NICOLE BODE -  STAFF WRITER  Add an all-expenses-paid master's degree, a five-year, $65,000 stipend and one strong mentoring program and what do you get? A slew of highly trained and committed math teachers, according to the formula proposed by a newly created foundation that hopes to improve the quality of math education in the city's public schools.. The nonprofit group Math for America

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