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Fellowship program works to beef up math teaching
- 02-10-2011
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By Erik W. Robelen/Education Week
When Katherine Collins, a math major at Pacific Lutheran University in her home state of Washington, began exploring options for life after college, she stumbled on a website that ultimately led her clear across the country to a public school here in the nation’s capital. She secured a spot in the competitive Math for America fellowship program, part of a small but growing initiative launched in 2004 that aims to improve secondary mathematics education by recruiting, training, and retaining outstanding math teachers. A core tenet is finding people who “know and love math,” the nonprofit organization says on its website. (more...)
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