Bridging the Math Opportunity Gap: Exponentia Prime Academy's Summer Camp Empowers Black and Brown Students

Bridging the math opportunity gap: Exponentia Prime Academy's summer camp empowers black and brown students

INDIANAPOLIS Step inside Exponentia Prime Academy, where it certainly doesnt seem like schools out for summer. These students are hard at work.We do tests, but they don't get graded, 3rd grader Sean Johnson said.Indeed, its math campof course, there are no real grades. But there is real learning happening here."We've been learning about the power of twos, fractions, multiplication, and long division," 5th grader Carine Mugwaneza said.This camp o…

Pennsylvania must keep closing opportunity gaps for students

By Aaron Chapin Pennsylvania State Education Association Historic. Bipartisan. A game changer for Pennsylvania’s public school students. For decades, hardly anyone could imagine using these words to describe how Pennsylvania funded our public schools. But, in 2024, Democratic and Republican legislators joined Gov. Josh Shapiro to finally address Pennsylvania’s staggering school funding inequities. Just a year earlier, the Commonwealth Court rule…