Stephanie Marshall

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Stephanie Marshall, Executive Director of the Illinois Math and Science Academy, Aurora, Illinois, discusses the importance of having high expectations for all students in mathematics. Excerpted from the video series Schools That Work: The Research Advantage, videoconference #2, Children as Problem Solvers (NCREL, 1991).

"When you base teaching upon learning, when you base instruction on how the brain functions, when you try to enhance meaning and understanding, you have fundamentally taken away the inequitable playing field that has been out there before for kids in mathematics, and you have said that all kids can learn mathematics. Because I think that was this does is that we are using mathematics as a wedge to redefine a very obtrusive, but very silent social covenant that we had existing in this country that said mathematics was not for everybody, and what we are saying right now is, 'oh yes it is.'"