Current News
- Keynote Address at the National Institute of Education in Singapore
In early June, Deborah Ball traveled to Singapore where she gave a keynote address at an international conference of researchers, teacher educators, teachers and policymakers, hosted by the National Institute of Education of Singapore.
download Ball's presentation- Making mathematics learnable in school: What is the work of teaching mathematics? (PDF)
- Detroit News Op/Ed: "Force Teachers to Prove Skills"
On April 30, Deborah Ball published an op-ed piece in the Detroit News on the problems with current teacher certification practices and the reforms that are being developed as part of the UM Teacher Education Initiative.
go to Ball's op/ed piece on the Detroit News website »
- Meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education
On April 23, Deborah Ball met with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and five other mathematics education experts in Washington, D.C. to discuss priorities for mathematics education in the United States. Topics up for discussion included discussion of the standard or metric for the measurement of progress in U.S. mathematics education and steps that the Department of Education could take to improve mathematics education by that standard or metric over the next 3-5 and 10-20 years.
download Ball’s responses to these questions (DOC)