A life-time educator, Diane taught high school chemistry, was Assistant Principal for Science at Richmond Hill High School from 1995 through 2002, Acting Principal of Manhattan Hunter Science High School and then Director of Math and Science Queens High Schools Office of the New York City Board of Education from August 2002 until her retirement.
The demand for Milosevic and his group has been huge--so huge that Will Osborn, a theoretical physicist and the director of Math Engine's research group, has lost count of their employees.
And Lucy West, the director of mathematics at Manhattan's District 2, where the new math has been most aggressively adopted, said that old-fashioned math had been oversold.
Jennifer McCray, director of Erikson's math project, said that there was no national model for teaching mathematics in early childhood and that most teachers receive no specialized training for it in college.
Mike Aldaco, director of the UC-administered Math, Engineering, and Science Achievement Program, which enrolls middle- and high-school minority students in special science programs, says MESA this fall will substitute guidelines such as educational and economic disadvantage for race and ethnicity.
Mitch Kurz Bronx, Aug. 18, 2009 The writer is college adviser/academic dean of the Bronx Center for Science and Math and director of the Promise Academy Charter Schools, Harlem Children's Zone.
After a brief stint in the United States Navy, George returned to Hotchkiss, where he spent 40 years in a variety of roles, including science and math teacher, Director of Admissions, and Director of College Guidance.
This week's problem was suggested by Ken Fan, founder and director of Girls Anglee, a Boston-area math club for girls and a supportive community for all girls and women engaged in the study, use and creation of mathematics.
Jessup however, is "outraged" by comments made in an open e-mail message to students at NYU's Courant Institute from the director of graduate studies in the math department, Fedor Bogolomov: "I do not know how the INS [Immigration and Naturalization Service] would view employment under a union contract," wrote Bogolomov, the faculty member who has come under UAW fire.
Don Hill was chief development officer at Mercersburg Academy, a boarding school in Mercersburg, PA for 30 years before retiring in 2007, having previously served 8 years as the school's director of admissions and as a math teacher and coach.
"These top 10 fields are occupations in which we see the practical application of math," says Al Lee, Ph.D., director of quantitative analysis at PayScale.
