Fellowship Program Works to Beef Up Math Teaching
Initiative is Spreading and Adding Science
When Katherine Collins, a math major at Pacific Lutheran University in her home state of Washington, began exploring options for life after college, she stumbled on a website that ultimately led her clear across the country to a public school here in the nation’s capital.
She secured a spot in the competitive Math for America fellowship program, part of a small but growing initiative launched in 2004 that aims to improve secondary mathematics education by recruiting, training, and retaining outstanding math teachers. A core tenet is finding people who “know and love math,” the nonprofit organization says on its website.
“I kind of toyed with the idea of going to graduate school [in mathematics], being a professor, or working in industry,” Ms. Collins, 24, recalled. “But I thought that the mission of bringing math people into the [K-12] education...
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