Curriculum

Next year, when Naomi Klarreich is not developing new theories to help physicists understand the nature of space and time, she'll be working to improve the quality of math instruction in the Cleveland public schools.

Thanks to a $655,000 National Science Foundation grant, she and two other postdoctoral mathematics fellows from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and one from Cleveland State University will spend half their time doing research and half working with the local schools. Each will...