The number 6 is not only the School of Education and Social Policy's new spot on U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of graduate programs in education. It also enjoys a long history of being regarded as beautiful, even magical, and one SESP professor thinks it can shed light on ways to improve math literacy in the United States.
SESP professor Miriam Sherin watches mathematics teachers watching themselves on tape, analyzes what they analyze.
SESP's alternative certification program gives career changers
a fast track into mathematics teaching as it increases educational
opportunity for underserved students.
Recent research by SESP professor James Spillane and his colleagues has uncovered some distinctive features of mathematics leadership in elementary schools.
The family business is mathematics for Ben Passty, a fellow in SESP's Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences (MPES) program and a third-year doctoral student in economics.
When Aki Murata (PhD02) was named assistant professor of education at Stanford University in August, she reached one more milestone in a life marked by unexpected twists and turns, a love of education and an openness to fresh starts.
The Learning Society consists of alumni and friends whose leadership
and generosity in annual giving provide vital support to the School of Education and Social Policy.