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David Eugene Smith is considered one of the founders of the field of mathematics education. Smith was born in Cortland, New York, to Abram P. Smith, attorney and surrogate judge, and Mary Elizabeth Bronson, who taught her young son Latin and Greek. [1] He attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1881 (Ph. D., 1887; LL.D., 1905).
Between 2001 and 2009, [7] Smith served as the head of education programs for The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where he and his team developed and funded Open Education Resources and where he was a proponent of Rice University's Connexions and the Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative, [13] advocating the development of free online ...
Smith was born on 15 April 1967, the elder son of Eddie Smith, a Methodist minister and Marina Smith, a teacher. [3]In 1995, he founded the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire with his younger brother James Smith, and together they also founded Aegis Trust in 2000.
"My Pedagogic Creed" is an article written by John Dewey and published in School Journal in 1897. [1] The article is broken into five sections, with each paragraph beginning "I believe." It has been referenced over 4100 times, and continues to be referenced, as a testament to the lasting impact of the ar
When Smith retired from the Detroit-based Rose Skillman Foundation in 1999, the foundation’s assets had grown to $620 million, allowing it to make grants of more than $25 million a year to ...
Georgia Caldwell Smith (1909–1961) was one of the first African-American women to gain a bachelor's degree in mathematics. [1] When she was 51, she earned a Ph.D. in mathematics, one of the earliest by an African-American woman, awarded posthumously in 1961. [2] [3] Smith was the head of the Department of Mathematics at Spelman College. [2] [4]
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In 2015, RIF released the results of Read for Success, a two-year research study funded by a grant from the Department of Education. Read for Success is centered around motivating children to read by providing access to high-quality classroom book collections, books for students to choose and own, enriching STEAM-themed classroom activities ...