Stanford math education professor Jo Boaler spends a lot of time worrying about how math education in the United States traumatizes kids. Recently, a colleague’s 7-year-old came home from school and ...
Getting A’s in math and science isn’t the hardest part of high school for Shamica Nolan, a sophomore at Eisenhower High School in Blue Island; it’s sidestepping fights and drug peddlers. “They are ...