Press conference: AAAS releases algebra textbook evaluations

Algebra for all -- Not with today's textbooks, says AAAS

WHAT: Press conference releasing the results of a rigorous evaluation of algebra textbooks

WHO: Project 2061, the long-term math and science education reform initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

• George D. Nelson Director of AAAS Project 2061
• Gerald Kulm Texas A&M University
  Algebra Textbook Evaluation Director
  
• Jacqueline Mitchell
  President of the Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics

WHEN: Wed., April 26, 2000, 9:30 a.m.

WHERE: AAAS Revelle Room
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005

CONTACT: Eileen Kugler 703-644-3039 or Mary Koppal 202-326-6643

This is the third in a series of textbook evaluations by Project 2061. Earlier evaluations are being used by textbook adoption committees around the country, as well as publishers developing new textbooks.

AAAS has a 150-year history of leadership on a broad range of important scientific and societal issues. As publisher of Science magazine, AAAS is an internationally respected source of information about all aspects of science and technology. AAAS initiated Project 2061 in 1985 to reform science and math education in grades K-12 so that all high-school graduates are "science literate."