The Fresno County Superintendent of Schools has been entrusted with helping young learners throughout California sharpen their math skills. Along with that responsibility comes a newly awarded $11.2 million California Statewide Early Math Initiative grant. "Our county decided to seek the grant because we are aware we are underperforming in state...
How Talented Kids From Low-Income Families Become 'Lost Einsteins'
Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly with Neviana Petkova of the U.S. Treasury, paints a very different picture. We found that a...
How Talented Kids From Low-Income Families Become 'Lost Einsteins'
Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly with Neviana Petkova of the U.S. Treasury, paints a very different picture. We found that a...