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The Advanced Math and Science Academy Advisory Board
Sandra Stotsky is a Research Scholar in the School of Education at Northeastern University. From 1999 to 2003, she was Senior Associate Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Education and directed complete revisions of the state’s standards in English, mathematics, science, history, geography, civics, and economics as well as its regulations for licensing teachers and teacher training programs. Editor of and contributor to What’s at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers (Peter Lang, 2000), she is also the author of Losing Our Language(Free Press, 1999, reprinted by Encounter Books, 2002). From 1991-1997, she served as editor of Research in the Teaching of English, the research journal sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English. She received a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan and an Ed. D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Paul Gagnon was Senior Research Associate in the School of Education at Boston University. He has served as Senior Associate for the National Commission on Time and Learning, Director of the Fund for the Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching in the U.S. Department of Education, and Principal Investigator for the Bradley Commission’s 1988 report, Building a History Curriculum. Author of France since 1789, Dr. Gagnon taught modern European history for many years at the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst and Boston, and was the founding Dean of Arts and Sciences at the Boston campus. Dr. Gagnon had been consulting AMSA in development of the History curriculum. Read his articles here.
Jonathan Choate has been teaching mathematics at Groton School since 1966 and has been involved in curriculum development in general and the use of computers in the teaching of mathematics in particular since the mid 80's. He has served on two NCTM Task Forces, one on algebra and the other on discrete mathematics and is currently the Newsletter/Web Page Editor for the new MAA Special Interest Group dedicated to the teaching of advanced mathematics in high school. His column, Geometer's Corner, is a regular feature in COMAP's Consortium newsletter, and he has just created a web site dedicated to the teaching of three-dimensional geometry which can be found at www.zebragraph.com.
Eli C. Minkoff received his bachelor's degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Columbia University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Society for the Study of Evolution, Dr. Minkoff has published eight books, two of which have been translated into other languages, as well as many articles in scholarly journals and encyclopedic reference works. He has degrees in both biology and geology, and has also taught mathematics, chemistry, and computer science at the college level. For over 36 years, he has been teaching biology full time at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He has also taught part-time at Harvard, Northeastern University, and at several campuses of the University of Southern Maine and the University of Maine at Augusta. Dr. Minkoff has long been very interested in high school curriculum development and in writing a high school biology textbook. He has developed an outline for such a high school biology text, and is interested in pursuing this project further.
Judith Gal-Ezer holds B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University. She performed Diploma studies in Computer Science and worked as a Coordinator of a Computer Science team and Head of Academic Development Division at Open University of Israel, designing, among other courses, a curriculum for M.Sc. studies in Computer Science. Its presentation to the Council for Higher Education was a significant breakthrough in the activity of the Open University of Israel. Prof. Gal-Ezer has served as a Vice President for Academic Affairs (1999 - 2005) at the Open University of Israel and Visiting Scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Prof. Gal-Ezer has been working as a member of a Curriculum Committee for Computer Science Studies in High Schools. The committee designed a computer science curriculum for secondary schools and oversees the preparation of learning materials and the integration of the program into Israel's education system. This program is considered worldwide as a breakthrough in high school computer science curricula.
