Policy Analysis for California Education The 2nd report of a 3-part series will analyze how the distinct missions of high schools, community colleges, and four-year universities create tensions for articulating math curricula across segments, and the resulting challenges for alternative math pathways as a route to college readiness.
Policy Analysis for California Education Part 1 of a 3-part report series based on interviews and extensive reviews of literature and documentation from U.S. high schools and collegiate math curricula dating back to the mid-1990s. This 1st report examines the history, drivers, and evolution to differentiated pathways.
Common Core State Standards Initiative This website resource identifies K-12 common core standards in mathematics with direct links to grade-level standards, state-level standards, and additional resources for educators.
National Research Council This 220-page paperback examines the current state of the mathematical sciences and explores the changes needed for the discipline to be in a strong position and able to maximize its contribution to the nation in 2025. It finds the vitality of mathematical scienes excellent and that they contribute in expanding ways to most areas of science and engineering, as well as to the nation as a whole, and recommends that training for future generations of mathematical scientists should be re-assessed in light of the increasingly cross-disciplinary nature of the disciple.
TPSE Math Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics, abbreviated as TPSE, meeting report from June 2014 explores recommendations for the post-secondary curricula in order to fit the needs of mathematics and other majors, the removal of barriers to and through mathematical sciences, how departments can improve teaching effectiveness while managing fiscal pressures. Also, the report explores how graduate students can gain vital skills among other topics.
This report looks at the achievement of the ACT®-tested 2017 graduating class relative to college and career readiness. A total of 60% of students in the 2017 US graduating class took the ACT® test, compared to 64% last year, 54% in 2013, and 42% in 2007.
The purpose of this site is to display key performance indicators of New Mexico’s 24 higher education institutions: Research universities, regional universities, branch colleges and independent community colleges.
The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education have identified college completion as their No. 1 goal and are working to increase the number of degrees and certificates earned in Oklahoma by an average of 1,700 per year, resulting in a 67 percent increase by 2023.
Includes an overview of Ohio’s continuing efforts for math pathways, meeting agendas and documents, and resources.
Michael L. Crawford Many of the classroom strategies used by our nation's nest teachers have been shown by cognitive science and learning research to be the best methods to help students construct and use knowledge in mathematics and science. This report describes five of these strategies, called contextual teaching strategies, presents examples of the use of these strategies, and cites research studies and compendiums that document how the strategies can improve student motivation and achievement in mathematics and science.