BOSTON — For the past two decades, the College Board has moved aggressively to expand the number of high school students taking Advanced Placement courses and tests — in part by pitching the program to low-income students and the schools that serve them. It is a matter of equity, they argue. “What if the best stuff in education were not just for the best to distinguish themselves — but could engage a much broader set of kids?” asked David Coleman, the College Board’s CEO, in a January podcast in
Congratulations to the following faculty and staff members who received grants and awards in August 2023: Doug Clements and Julie Sarama, faculty at the Morgridge College of Education Grant from the National Science Foundation Abstract: The Learning Strand project will create a scalable, accessible and viable resource for early math. The project will make a substantive contribution to the advancement of knowledge in three fields: cognition, curriculum and the scale-up of educational innovations through technology. Brian Michel, faculty at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Grant from the National Institutes of Health Abstract: While ethylene has long been known as an important plant hormone, it has also been demonstrated to be produced in mammals as a result of oxidative stress that is hallmark to numerous diseases. Important questions remain for broad applications in the detection of endogenous ethylene related to modifications that further improve sensitivity while retai
East High School's African diaspora seminar is attracting students from diverse backgrounds and helping to level the playing field in advanced placement classes.