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...early teens are difficult years for American boys. The first flickers of puberty bring with them confused longings. New social skills are suddenly required; the conversation in my junior high school has shifted from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the center for the Lakers, to Teresa, this totally hot girl in Algebra I. A few of the guys evolve flawlessly. One week they're collecting baseball cards, and the next they're driving Mustangs and dating Teresas. The rest of us retreat into a sort of refined hyper-geekdom. As kids we may have played with toy soldiers or plastic tanks...
...best-qualified career switchers to become teachers, often requiring them to spend a year or more obtaining master's degrees in education. The recruiters often seemed to care more whether prospective teachers could talk the jargon of "metacognition" and "kinesthetic modalities" than whether they could actually solve an algebra problem or explain cell division...
Moses recently published a book called "Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights." He currently heads the Algebra Project, a program designed to teach math to inner-city and rural children in an effort to prepare them for the new world of technology...
...goal of Moses' Algebra Project is to excite students to fight for their own education...
...best-qualified career switchers to become teachers, often requiring them to spend a year or more obtaining master's degrees in education. The recruiters often seemed to care more whether prospective teachers could talk the jargon of "metacognition" and "kinesthetic modalities" than whether they could actually solve an algebra problem or explain cell division...