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A new commentary piece in Education Week provides recommendations for sending more STEM majors into teaching.

Appearing in the Huffington Post, MƒA President John Ewing's latest piece “Holding Accountability Accountable” shows us some of the disastrous costs of accountability in education.

To put it kindly, my teaching career has entered its second half.  By rough estimate, that amounts to 3,000 students, or 30,000 exams graded (at the ridiculously low rate of 10 tests per year), surely

Forbes reporter Michela Tindera spoke with MƒA Founder Jim Simons prior to this past weekend’s National Math Festival in Washington, D.C. 

Last week MƒA President John Ewing gave a public talk at Vassar College, where he spoke to the audience about a topic he has written on extensively – whether the United States is facing a STEM educati

In his latest Huffington Post op-ed "Driven by Data" MƒA President John Ewing dissects how data plays an increasingly important role in our lives, both in the technological and cultural sense. 

A new profile about MƒA in Governing Magazine puts the spotlight on our mission to cultivate excellent mathematics and science teachers to keep them in the profession.

Can any one name a mathematician? Of course you can! But what if I asked you to name a female mathematician? This requires a little more thought, I bet.

In New York City, intertwining nature into the science classroom experience may be a bit difficult – though it’s certainly not impossible. In fact, New York City offers the unique opportunity to study

Eugenia Cheng, the author of How to Bake Pi, said in a colloquium she gave at MƒA this past fall that mathematics is best learned through understanding and play.