Archive for February, 2008
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Math Literacy Summit: Feb 27-28
Find out about Ruafika Cobb who founded the Algebra Academy, a Saturday program that teaches 15 minority students from the Asheville Middle School. Her work, and others in the Asheville, North Carolina community, is raising the bar for public school math education.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
LHS Algebra Project Students Lead “Family Math Night” Activities
On January 10, 2008, ninety parents, community members, civil rights activists and educators assembled at the Medical Mall in Jackson, Mississippi with great anticipation of the demonstrations in mathematics which would be led by the Algebra Project students of Lanier.
The demonstrations highlighted the concepts of distance and displacement and how these ideas are applicable in everyday life situations such as the relay race.
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Feb 14-15: Driving Education Reform with Danny Glover
Renowned actor and humanitarian Danny Glover will be in New Orleans visiting Recovery School District schools tomorrow, Thursday February 14 and Friday February 15, continuing his involvement in efforts to bring officials, schools and community together to create effective solutions toward raising the quality of public school education.