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Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium
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Friday (4/20/2007) at 2:30pm in 304 Pickard Hall "On Innovation in American Mathematics Education"Abstract: With the emergence of rich data sources on education achievement, it's now possible to systematically and rapidly locate new practices worthy of attention for improving the performance of US mathematics students. I'll describe some of these innovations with a special focus on those that have shown promise in large urban districts. The talk will also explore the mythology of pervasive failure which dominates media coverage of US education. The presentation is designed both for researchers and those with a general interest in improving mathematics education. Uri Treisman is professor of mathematics and executive director of
the Charles A Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Uri
chairs the Chancellor's Advisory Panel for Mathematics in New York
City and the steering committee of the Urban Mathematics Leadership
Network--a coalition of 13 large urban districts seeking to improve
PreK-12 mathematics teaching and learning. He is a member of the
leadership team of the National Research Council's Strategic
Education Research Partnership (SERP) and chairs its Design Working
Group. He was a founding board member of AVID and of the National
Center for Public Policy in Higher Education. He serves on the
National Advisory Board of the Military Child Education Coalition
(MCEC) and has served as Chief Juror for a Department of
Defense-sponsored study of mobility in military families and its
effects on their children's education. From 1995 to 2004 he served as
president of the board of the Consortium for Mathematics and its
Applications (COMAP). He served as the vice-chair of the Governor's
Commission for Volunteerism and Community Service under Governors
Richards and Bush.
For his work on nurturing minority student high achievement in mathematics, he was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1992. In December 1999, he was named as one of the outstanding leaders of higher education in the 20th century by the magazine Black Issues In Higher Education. In February 2006 he was named "2006 Scientist of the Year" by the Harvard Foundation of Harvard University for his outstanding contributions to mathematics. In all his work, he is an advocate for equity and excellence in education for all children.
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