Posted by BJ Goergen, NMSI Chief of Staff:

Pattie Sellers, Editor at Large a FORTUNE magazine, got the NMSI Young Leaders' conference for female college students majoring in math and science off to an exciting start Monday with a roundtable breakfast at the offices of Time Inc. in New York City. Here is the report she immediately posted on her blog "Postcards:"

Here's a great example of the terrific rapport that the AP teachers in programs supported by NMSI grants have with their students:

Jun 17, 2009
By John Winn

The recent article, "Is AP for everybody?" (Telegram & Gazette, June 4) raises a valuable question, but would have benefited from more views explaining that expanding AP is not the problem - it is the solution if the program is expanded appropriately.

Posted by Lin McMullin, NMSI Director of Math Programs

CNN recently did an interesting segment on a robotics competition that boosts minority interest in engineering. Here is the link --

Competing with robots*

 Posted by Rena Pederson, NMSI Communications Director

Posted by Rena Pederson, NMSI Communications Director

Education Secretary Arne Duncan urges a national mobilization of educators, funders, policymakers, mathematicians, and scientists to transform math and science education

Washington -- NMSI joined the Carnegie Corporation of New York Institute for Advanced Study Commission on Mathematics and Science Education June 10 in kicking off a national mobilization to achieve much higher levels of math and science learning with the release of its report, The Opportunity Equation: Transforming Mathematics and Science Education for Citizenship and the Global Economy. (www.OpportunityEquation.org ).

Posted by Rena Pederson, NMSI Communications Director

Two articles in major newspapers today spotlight AP programs and provide interesting context on how AP can raise the academic bar for more students. The articles from the Washington Post and New York Post follow:

Is AP for All A Formula For Failure?

By Jay Mathews

The Washington Post
Monday, June 8, 2009

I spend much time with aggressive Advanced Placement teachers. They tell me, quite often, that students must be stretched beyond their assumed capabilities. Whenever I try to pass on this advice, however, I become a target for ridicule and disbelief from readers.

Posted by Rena Pederson, NMSI Communications Director

Engineering Change in Education

Here's an invitation for Texas K-12 STEM teachers and pre-service teachers, counselors, and administrators as well as anyone else who is interested in engineering education: The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) will be offering a FREE workshop on "Engineering Change in K-12 STEM Education" in Austin Saturday June 13, 2009.

Andie Grasmick Nye
LAWRENCE - Andie Grasmick Nye wasn't always a numbers person. She had always gravitated toward social studies and English classes in high school.

LITTLE ROCK - As a senior at Lake Hamilton High School in Hot Springs, Kayln Duggan hasn't been concentrating on graduation or prom - she's been rewriting William Shakespeare's Hamlet.