By Pedro Noguera (Teachers College Press, 224 pages, $19.95) BUY NOW! Educators who seek to make a difference in the lives of students face tremendous challenges working in urban public schools that are under-resourced and over-burdened. In response, Pedro Noguera maps out his vision of hope and pragmatism in City Schools and the American Dream. Building on his experience as
Schools Eastlake High School Public school serving grades 10-12 400 228th Ave. N.E. Sammamish, Washington 98074 425/836-6600 http://wwwehs.lkwash.wednet.edu/ Lakeside Middle School Public school serving grades 7-8 2 North Sharp Street Millville, New Jersey 08332 856/293-7600 www.millville.org/lakeside/index.html Lanier High School Public school serving grades 9-12 833 Maple St. Jackson, MS 39203 601/960-5369 www.jackson.k12.ms.us/schools/high/lanier.htm New Mission High School Public school serving grades
Edited by Carl Glickman, foreword by Bill Cosby (Teachers College Press, 288 pages $14.95) BUY NOW! Letters to the Next President gathers fifty voices – parents, a superintendent, eighth grade Native American students, a first-grade teacher, a senior-class president, nationally known education reform leaders, a middle school assistant principal, university professors, United States senators and representatives, a prison inmate –
When mathematics students and teachers are able to deepen their relationships with the curriculum and with each other, they are more likely to teach and learn in ways that promote sustained, connected, meaningful understanding. Stories of teachers’ engagement with their own curriculum through mathematics discourse, students’ connection with teachers through personalized pedagogy, and students’ commitment to the curriculum through personally
Roser Gine and her New Mission High School colleagues have experienced the challenges and rewards of designing the mathematics curriculum for their recently founded, small, student-centered school. Based on a 2003 Fall Forum workshop led by Gine and New Mission teacher Stephen Cirasuolo, this article documents New Mission’s process of creating a challenging, meaningful, standards-based mathematics curriculum, offering compelling advice,
The Core-Plus Mathematics Project (CPMP), published by Everyday Learning in Chicago, Illinois. This is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded integrated mathematics curriculum project that provides lots of ideas for student investigation. It has provided me with interesting class activities that complement the portfolio strands. Functions Modeling Change, a book by Connelly, Hughes-Hallett, Gleason et al; published by John Wiley
The Math Forum Drexel University’s Math Forum is the best place to go for a deep, multi-perspective immersion in issues connected to mathematics teaching and learning. In addition to an astoundingly large sweep of interactive opportunities for teachers, researchers, parents, and students, the Math Forum features Problems of the Week (math challenges available to all, some with online mentoring assistance,
Mathematical Modeling 1. In Roser Gin?©’s Midlevel and Graduate classes this year, students have used math models and mathematical reasoning to explain the impact of epidemics on the world’s population (vehicle: “Investigating Epidemics Through Mathematics”). The goal of this project was to examine how different epidemics have spread in order to make predictions using identified patterns. Students applied their knowledge
By Chris Mercogliano (Beacon Press, 256 pages, $25.00) BUY NOW! Chris Mercogliano has taught at the urban, independently funded Albany Free School for thirty years. The Free School, with fifty or so students ranging in age from two to fourteen, provides a physical and social environment that allows students, in close contact with teachers and other caring adults, to create
In January 2004, Victor Cary, Program Director at the Bay Area Coalition of Equitable Schools, talked with Robert P. Moses, longtime civil rights activist. Known for his voter registration work in the Mississippi Delta in the 1960s and his subsequent math education efforts, Moses founded the Algebra Project in the 1980s as a grassroots efforts to improve math literacy among