Local Coordinator PRIN 2017 Real and Complex Manifolds: Topology, Geometry and holomorphic dynamics. Įxternal Advisory Commiteee Member of Center of Mathematics (CMAT), University of Minho, Portugal. Member of the Scientific Committee of UMI. Īssociate of the Committee for Developing Countries of the European Mathematical Society.ĭirector of GNSAGA (Italian National Group for Algebra and Geometry) of INdAM. In short, raise the “floor” of mathematics achievement for young people from our Nation’s working class families, families of color, and those living in under-resourced communities and neighborhoods.Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Geometric Analysis, Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, Revista de la Unión Matemática Argentina, Extracta Matematicae, Note di Matematica, AIMS Mathematics. Achieve increased high school student graduation into post-secondary education and/or employment without the need for remediation. Stabilize teaching and learning settings by creating multi-year opportunities for teachers and students to work together. Increase the in-school and out-of-school time math electives and options offered in schools serving disproportionate numbers of students in the bottom quartile. The grading option must be indicated at the. Courses offered with a grading option (OP) allow students to choose a letter grade or a Pass/Fail grade.
Courses may be offered for a letter grade (A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, D, F) or Pass/Fail (P for pass or F for fail). Replace redundant and remedial curriculum with the kinds of robust, relevant, and engaging curriculum used with high achievers. Each Academic Unit is responsible for determining a course’s grading option. Stop the common practice of asking our most vulnerable teachers to teach our most vulnerable students. The Goal: Change the trajectory of success for our nation’s youth by providing the teaching, coaching, mentoring and support necessary for all to learn mathematics on grade-level. Without math young people will not be able to qualify for the educational opportunities, the internships and the careers that STEM offers. Manager, FIU Academic Support Services, Academic and Career Success. High School Math Teacher, Palm Beach County Public Schools. Culinary arts educator, Chicago Public Schools. Math competencies are the portal to a STEM driven world. Real jobs, real gradshow online learning helped me achieve my goal. Why mathematics? The 21st century’s global economy requires mathematics literacy as a prerequisite to quality jobs and economic growth in an increasingly competitive and international labor market. Deploy federal resources directly to local school districts and their communities to allow more time, attention, and expertise to those students performing at the bottom on standardized mathematics tests.Affirm that 14th Amendment protections guarantee equal access to quality education.We seek legislation that must accomplish two critical things: The result is that over 60% of high school graduates entering college are not ready to take college math without remediation.
Poverty, race, and geography all contribute to inequities that effectively deny millions of our young people their constitutional right to full citizenship and to participation in the modern knowledge economy. This is an important ask because we live in a nation of unequal opportunity.
To coordinate funding across multiple federal agencies (such as HHS, Labor) to address a broad spectrum of academic, as well as social-emotional, needs many of these students have which, if better met, would enhance their ability to stay on grade level and leave high school ready to apply mathematics in college and/or career. To offer schools the direct funding needed to change what are now minimum expectations about what and how mathematics can successfully be taught, to whom, and by whom To enhance educational opportunity in schools that are disproportionately serving minorities and students at the bottom academic quartile
Kafkoulis is, in my opinion, the best math professor at FIU. WE SEEK NATIONAL ATTENTION AND LEGISLATION: Check out Similar Professors in the Mathematics Department. OUR INTENT: TO ELIMINATE DISPARITIES IN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY BY RACE AND CLASS AND TO ADDRESS THE NATIONAL NEED FOR A MATHEMATICALLY LITERATE 21ST CENTURY WORKFORCE. WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN “WE THE PEOPLE – MATH LITERACY FOR ALL” ALLIANCE FOR A PUBLIC BRIEFING WITH BOB MOSES, DANNY GLOVER, SCHOOL LEADERS, TEACHERS & STUDENTS FROM ACROSS THE NATION