How can we encourage all students-especially girls and minority students-to pursue math careers?
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will open the show with a taped greeting, followed by a live conversation with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Ray Simon, which will feature information about the nation’s progress towards NCLB’s goal of having every child doing math at grade level by 2014, and the significance of the National Math Panel’s Final Report and how it helps improve student mathematics achievement in the country. Also, Simon will discuss the current status of mathematics instruction in the nation’s schools with award winning educators Dianne McWain, principal, Clark Middle School, Chickasaw, Ala., and Vern Williams, teacher and National Math Panel member, Longfellow Middle School, Falls Church, Va. There will also be a taped interview with Larry Faulkner, chair, National Math Panel, who will discuss the panel’s findings from two years of examining scientific evidence on improving the teaching and learning of pre-K through 8th-grade mathematics. The month’s sh
