It's a Saturday afternoon at Boston University’s School of Education, where Elliot Kastner, a former Dartmouth College football player turned mechanical engineer, is addressing a group of students. He ...
After noticing a lack of African American, Latino and low-income students in high level math classes, former Belmont High School Dean of Students Adrian Mims lead a team of teachers and school leaders ...
Caleb Vitalus always liked math, even if it was sometimes difficult. He liked the order it provided, the step-by-step way it untangled problems. “It’s like a story being told for me. I like getting to ...
A right-leaning national grassroots organization is targeting a Massachusetts-based program designed to advance math education among students of color and low-income students. Parents Defending ...
The Calculus Project puts underrepresented students in a cohort of their peers and empowers them to soar. What’s so discriminatory about that? On a hot day last summer, I roused two reluctant ...
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College students learn more calculus in an active learning course in which students solve problems during class than in a traditional lecture-based course. That’s according to a peer-reviewed study my ...
NEWTON — The Akamai Foundation has given the city's public schools a $75,000 grant to help boost the Calculus Project, a district-wide program aimed at narrowing the achievement gap for low-income ...
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