While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Thanks to Jay Gillen and everyone who commented on my post about the Algebra Project protest in Annapolis this week. In a comment last night, Jay talked about the Algebra Project’s primary role as an ...

Prior to Katrina, community involvement at Douglass High School was building and took a variety of forms. One of the most important was the weekly adult math literacy class hosted by the Douglass ...

As an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s, Bob Moses traveled to the most dangerous parts of Mississippi to help African Americans end segregation and secure ...

When Bob Moses brought his Algebra Project to Baltimore in 1990, he could hardly have imagined the impact his mathematics curriculum would have on the city’s youth two decades later. By signing up, ...

"On a warm Saturday morning in spring, a bunch of rowdy sixth-graders take over a gymnasium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Shouting, daring, flashing their white tennis shoes, teams warm up, then take ...