Math and Educational Issues

2012

• The Trouble With Online College, Editorial (NYT 2013/02/18).
• For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall, by Jason DeParle (NYT, 2012/12/22).
• Opening the Doors to the Life of Pi, by Edward Rothstein (NYT, 12/13/2012).
• When Math Hurts: Math Anxiety Predicts Pain Network Activation in Anticipation of Doing Math, by Ian M. Lyons and Sian L. Beilock (PLOS ONE 7(10), 2012).
• Results of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011.
• LSAMP Program Has Key Role in Minority STEM Degree Attainment, by Jamaal Abdul-Alim (Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012/08/16)
• Is Algebra Necessary?, by Andrew Hacker (NYT, 2012/07/28)
• Lupe Ontiveros, Who Portrayed Maids and Moms, Dies at 69, by Mireya Navarro (NYT, 2012/07/27)
• The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of, by Natalie Angier (NYT, 2012/03/26)
• At UTEP, Success Is Not All About Graduation Rates, by Reeve Hamilton (Texas Tribune/NYT 2012/03/02).

  2011

• The Nation's Report Card - Mathematics 2011. (National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences)
• It Started Digital Wheels Turning, by John Markoff (NYT, 2011/11/07)
• After 20 Years in Partnership, an Educational Combo Is Getting a Messy Divorce, by Reeve Hamilton (Texas Tribune 2011/11/04)
• Since 1990s, U.S. Students’ Math Has Sharpened, but Reading Lags, by Sam Dillon (NYT, 2011/11/01)
• On Campus, It’s One Big Commercial, by Natasha Singer (NYT, 2011/09/10)
• Google Details, and Defends, Its Use of Electricity, by James Glanz (NYT, 2011/09/08)
• How to Fix Our Math Education, by Sol Garfunkel and David Mumford (NYT, 2011/08/24)
• California Cuts Weigh Heavily on Its Colleges, by Jennifer Medina (NYT, 2011/07/08)
• How Bright Promise in Cancer Testing Fell Apart, by Gina Kolata (NYT, 2011/07/07)
• Charter Schools Tied to Turkey Grow in Texas, by Stephanie Saul (NYT, 2011/06/06)
• Achievement Gaps: How Hispanic and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, by F. Cadelle Hemphill, Alan Vanneman, Taslima Rahman (National Center for Education Statistics, June 2011)
• High School Classes May Be Advanced in Name Only, by Sam Dillon (NYT, 2011/04/26)
• A Better Way to Teach Math, by David Bornstein (NYT, 2011/04/18)
• Jean Bartik, Software Pioneer, Dies at 86 , by Steve Lohr (NYT, 2011/04/08)
• More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality, by Trip Gabriel (NYT, 2011/04/05)
• In Germany, Uproar Over a Doctoral Thesis, by Michael Kimmelman (NYT, 2011/03/14)
• Degrees and Dollars, by Paul Krugman (NYT, 2011/03/06)
• From Lab to Red Carpet, by Natalie Anger (NYT, 2011/02/28)
• Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshmen, by Tamar Lewin (NYT, 2011/01/27)

  2010

• What Works in the Classroom? Ask the Students, by Sam Dillon (NYT, 2010/12/10)
• Scrutiny Takes Toll on For-Profit College Company, by Tamar Lewin (NYT, 2010/11/09)
• Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits, by Benedict Carey (NYT, 2010/09/06)
• Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age, by Trip Gabriel (NYT, 2010/08/01)
• The College Completion Agenda - 2010 Progress Report, by the CollegeBoard Advocacy & Policy Center
• 2009 Higher Education Price Index, by the Commonfund Institute
• Share of College Spending for Recreation Is Rising, by Sam Dillon (NYT, 2010/07/08)
• As School Exit Tests Prove Tough, States Ease Standards, by Ian Urbina (NYT, 2010/01/12)

  2009

• A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing, by John Markoff (NYT, 2009/12/15)
• College Dropouts Cite Low Money and High Stress, by Tamar Lewin (NYT, 2009/12/09)
• Sluggish Results Seen in Math Scores, by Sam Dillon (NYT, 2009/10/14)
• Launchings by David Bressoud - Wolfram|Alpha, MAA, August 2009.
• For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics, by Steve Lohr (NYT, 2009/08/05)
• Math and the City, by Steven Strogatz (NYT, 2009/05/19)
• Genius: The Modern View, by David Brooks (NYT, 2009/05/01)
• Helping Women Reach Their Potential in Math, by Tanya Mohn (NYT, 2009/04/19)
• State Colleges Also Face Cuts in Ambitions, by Tamar Lewin (NYT, 2009/03/17)
• UTEP's Truths Are In the Facts, by Roberto A. Osegueda (El Paso Times, 2009/02/15)
• Our Greatest National Shame, by Nicholas D. Kristof (NYT, 2009/02/15)
• Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs, by Sarah E. Needleman (WSJ, 2009/01/26)
• The Last Professor, by Stanley Fish (NYT, 2009/01/19)
• At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard, by Sara Rimer (NYT, 2009/01/13)
• A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows, by Ashlee Vance (NYT, 2009/01/10)

  2008

• A World Without Cobol?, by Stuart McGill (FT.com, 2008/12/08)
• Bill and Melinda Gates go back to school, by Claudia Wallis (CNNMoney.com, 2008/11/26)
• The Misplaced Math Student - Lost in Eighth-Grade Algebra, by Tom Loveless (Brown Center on Educational Policy, September 2008)
• Higher Education Gap May Slow Economic Mobility by Erik Eckholm (NYT, 2008/02/20)

  2007

• Texas gains on SAT as scores fall nationally by Terrence Stutz (Dallas Morning News, 2007/08/29)
• America's Digital Divide Narrows by Catherine Holahan (BusinessWeek.com, 2007/03/15)
• UTEP's degrees don't add up by Matthew Tresaugue (Houston Chronicle, 2007/01/30)
• Bildungslücke Mathematik by Jürgen Krause (FAZ, 2007/01/06)

  1998-2006

• Why You Should Choose Math in High School by Espen Andersen (Ubiquity, 2006/03/21)
• As Math Scores Lag, a New Push for the Basics by Tamar Lewin (NYT, 2006/11/14)
• Exito Calculado by David Epstein (Inside Higher Ed, 2006/02/03)
• Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants II by Mark Prensky
• Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math by Sam Dillon (NYT, 2006/03/26).
• Math Will Rock Your World by Stephen Baker (Business Week Online, 2006/01/13).
• The Undergraduate Experience - Survival of the Fittest by John Merrow (NYT, 2005/04/24).
• Die überschätzte Schule by Hartmut von Hentig (Frankfurter Rundschau, 2004/05/11)
• Hard Numbers - Maths and science have gone into a dangerous decline in Britain (The Economist, 2003/04/17).
• Throwing Out the Baby with the Bath Water by Lloyd Bond
• Digital Diploma Mills, by David F. Noble.
• Zugbrücke außer Betrieb by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (FAZ, 1998/08/29)