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Just weeks after creating a $50 million tax credit for private schools, Idaho has shut down a program that helped public school students pay for laptops, school supplies, tutoring and other expenses.
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How Many Students Have Been Expelled Under Tennessee’s School Threats Law? There’s No Clear Answer.
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Tennessee gives public agencies wide latitude to refuse to release data. That made it challenging for our reporters to figure out just how many students were affected.

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-law-expulsions-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
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An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Mathematics Teaching 297 now available online https://atm.org.uk/Mathematics-Teaching-Journal-Archive/177732

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For the classroom: fractions
Tom Francome offers activities from LUMEN (Loughborough University Mathematics Education Network https://www.lboro.ac.uk/lumen).
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT297/08.pdf

Critical mathematics education student teachers’ perspectives
Manjinder K. Jagdev and her student teachers reflect on their experiences of developing critical mathematics education and social justice themes in initial teacher education courses
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT297/10.pdf

Awareness of the division of fractions keep your flipping change to yourself!
Sam Brace describes a unit of work that uses learners’ powers of the mind to understand the division of fractions.
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT297/11.pdf

Jan Potworowski the quest to humanise mathematics education
George Knights and Lyndon Baker have prepared this tribute to Jan Potworowski.
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT297/13.pdf

Julian Williams teacher researcher theorist. 1954–2025
Geoff Wake and Laura Black celebrate Julian Williams’s contribution to mathematics Education.
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT297/14.pdf

I want to remember...
In memory of Julian Williams by Laya Hooshyari.
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT297/15.pdf

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After years of prioritizing magnet and charter schools, Chicago is hoping that investing in upgrades to three underenrolled neighborhood schools will lure families back. But it could take years and millions of dollars to see if it works.

https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-public-schools-transform-into-steam-academies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler looks like an excellent textbook. If I ever end up teaching or tutoring undergraduate linear algebra again I think I'd try it as a text. The book is open access and is available at https://linear.axler.net (I have no affiliation with the author; I just like the book!)

One thing I like about this book is its approach to eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Most linear algebra books present eigenvalues as roots of the "characteristic polynomial", which is built from the "determinant", which in turn has some formula defining it. These objects are rarely motivated geometrically, and so you're left with limited understanding of just what an eigenvalue is or why linear transformations on finite-dimensional vector spaces must have them. Axler avoids determinants till Chapter 9 of the book, focusing instead on linear operators. The fact that operators must have eigenvalues pops out of the observation that iterating an operator on a given non-zero starting vector results in a set of vectors that must eventually become linearly dependent. This fact also leads to the development of the characteristic polynomial; you can then come at the determinant from this, more geometric, perspective.

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