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Notes
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A digital copy of the second edition of Beecher’s text is available online through Google books.
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The full titles of these two standards documents published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) are Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics and Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, respectively.
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AWM Newsletter issues are available via the AWM website.
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WME (Women and Mathematics Education), an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, was founded in 1978. Its current mission (as stated on its website) is to advocate for equity and high-quality teaching and learning of mathematics for all students, especially related to girls, women, and underrepresented minority students.
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The EQUALS and Family Math programs, offered since 1977 through the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley, provide workshops, curriculum materials, and publications in mathematics and equity for PreK–12 teachers, parents, and families. See its website.
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See the May–June 1990, March–April 1992, and May–June 1992 issues.
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This lack of label made it more difficult to recognize which columns were the work of the Education Committee in the early issues.
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See the March–April 1991, January–February 1994 and 1995, January–February and March–April 1996, and January–February 1997 issues.
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WaToTom formed in 1998 as a group concerned with how best to prepare future teachers of K–12 mathematics. Participants have included K–12 teachers, higher education faculty members, and representatives from Washington State’s Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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It may be worth noting that this initial group was far less diverse than the current set of contributors. All save one were faculty members at four-year institutions (some PhD-granting, some not); the exception, was a test developer at College Board, who then began teaching at a two-year college. One had a PhD in mathematics education and the others PhDs in mathematics. As far as the author knows, there were no women of color, nor any department chairs or administrators. A concerted effort has been made over the last several years to increase the diversity of perspectives.
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Kenschaft wrote her last column in 2020 and Yvonne Lai has agreed to fill her position.
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The author is most grateful to the AWM Newsletter Editor Anne Leggett for her gracious help throughout the research for this article and for giving it one final read, to Cathy Kessel and Ginger Warfield for answering several of my questions about the Column’s history, to Pao-sheng Hsu for reviewing multiple drafts of this article, and to the reviewers for their comments and suggestions.
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Dewar, J.M. (2022). The Story of the Education Column in the AWM Newsletter . In: Beery, J.L., Greenwald, S.J., Kessel, C. (eds) Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics. Association for Women in Mathematics Series, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82658-1_50
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