Can social and economic justice issues be integrated into mathematics curricula?

Last week, Gordon Brown, the presumptive successor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, gave a speech in which he said globalization requires "a real, deliverable promise that we can give people the skills for the future by investing in education, science, technology and the creative industries..."

Already facing sharp questions from its faculty, Southern Methodist University is now being pressed by some Methodist clergy to drop its pursuit of the Bush library...

The Koret Task Force on K-–12 Education is a top-rate team of education experts brought together by the Hoover Institution, with the support of the Koret Foundation, to work on education reform. The primary objectives of the task force are to gather, evaluate, and disseminate existing evidence in an analytical context, and analyze reform measures that will enhance the quality and productivity of K-–12 education.