http://www.algebra.org/news archive Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:36:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Algebra Project has completed the planning year of its Discovery Research K-12 grant from the National Science Foundation.  The award was granted for “potentially transformative” education research, and the Algebra Project was among the 17% of proposals that were successful.    The Algebra Project will test its “cohort model” for ... http://www.algebra.org/news/2009/11/16/ap-high-school-cohorts-nsf-discovery-research/ By Myranda Stephens 5:00 AM on 02/01/2010 Omo Moses could be called a product of activism. His parents were both civil rights leaders in Mississippi during the 1960s, then relocated to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War draft. From there, they moved to Tanzania where Moses was born. His full name, Omowale, ... http://www.algebra.org/news/2010/02/09/thegrios-100-omo-moses-equating-things-for-next-generation/ Celebration fills the air in Petersburg, VA, these days, and rightly so. For the first time in the history of the Virginia Standards of Learning, Petersburg High School has received full accreditation! A.P. Hill and Walnut Hill elementary schools also achieved full accreditation this year and Robert E. Lee was ... http://www.algebra.org/news/2009/10/14/accreditation_progress_petersburg_va/ Boston, MA, June 22-26, 2009—Algebra Project mathematicians, teachers and mathematics educators convened at the HayGroup in Boston, MA for a 5-day intensive institute to prepare new facilitators of AP teacher professional development.  It is called “PDPD,” or “Professional Development for Professional Developers.”  With the support of supplemental funding from the ... http://www.algebra.org/news/2009/10/15/algebra-project-national-professional-development-of-professional-developers/ St. Louis County, MN - At the invitation of Ms. Lowana Greensky, Director of Indian Education for ISD 2142, and her staff, Gary Benenson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the City College of New York, co- author of "Stuff that works!" curriculum guides, Heinemann (2002) and member of the Algebra ... http://www.algebra.org/news/2009/10/14/the-algebra-project-goes-to-northern-minnesota/ On Friday, July 13, 2007, Robert P. Moses and the Algebra Project students were featured on PBS Now with a special update on the Algebra Project's work with students at Edison High School in Miami, Florida; the Algebra Project Math Lab at Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi; and the ... http://www.algebra.org/news/2007/11/03/archive-2/ ROBERT P. MOSES In the following pages, Robert Moses tells the history of the early civil rights movement in Mississippi, focusing on the individuals, alliances, and strategies that brought about fundamental change in the United States and ultimately made possible the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. Moses describes how ... http://www.algebra.org/news/2009/10/08/an-earned-insurgency-quality-education-as-a-constitutional-right/ Where was it? Jackson State University, Jackson, MS When was it? July 24-27, 2008 Here's a copy of the conf. schedule: http://www.algebra.org/articles/APconfsched_20080617.pdf For over a quarter century, the Algebra Project has been working at the forefront of a civil rights struggle against one root cause of racial inequity in the United ... http://www.algebra.org/news/2007/11/03/archive/ A Letter from Michael, a 10th grade Algebra Project Student at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School, in San Francisco, CA, to his AP teacher, Mr. Marcus Hung after successfully completing the Road Coloring curriculum module. Date: 1/23/09 Dear Mr. Hung, I just want to say thanks for the great semester in Algebra and ... http://www.algebra.org/news/2009/10/14/a-letter-from-a-10th-grade-algebra-project-student/ By P. Sterling Stuckey Yvonne and Wilheminia     Though Yvonne and Wilhemenia worked eight hours a day, Emergency Relief Committee meetings were held in their apartments on week nights, sometimes late into the night, and on weekends in the early evening. For many months the sisters, on Saturdays, joined the ... http://www.algebra.org/news/2007/11/11/featured-fund/