Alabama made a big investment in elementary math, but underresourced schools still have a long way to go - The Hechinger Report

Alabama made a big investment in elementary math, but underresourced schools still have a long way to go - The Hechinger Report

GREENVILLE, Ala. — Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at Greenville Elementary School were calculating remainders in division problems on worksheets, and Howard wanted to confer with Gray on which of them needed extra help.   Howard is in her second year of teaching. She’s working at the …