• Alan Schoenfeld of the University of California Berkeley has been selected as the recipient of the second SIG/RME Senior Scholar Award. This award is presented in recognition of the research of a single scholar within the field whose programmatic work has been essential in mathematics education. Congratulations!
• Congratulations to Amy B. Ellis, winner of the 2008 Early Career Publication Award.
• Welcome new officers: James Middleton (Co-Chair), Amanda Jansen (Treasurer), and Corey Drake (Awards Board Member)!
• The Summer 2008 Newsletter is available on-line in pdf format. If you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can do so here.
• The Membership Directory has been updated (December 2007). To update your contact information, please e-mail Mandy Jansen with your corrected information. If you have questions about accessing the directory, please email Gwen Lloyd.
  
• Check out the new job postings. Please remember to refresh your browser to make sure you have the latest job listings. Please email all post requests to: Gwen Lloyd. If there are any problems with the website, please e-mail me as well.

Announcements/Calls for papers

1. Are you interested in how people learn, designing effective learning environments, or ways to assess learning? The University of Illinois at Chicago's interdisciplinary PhD program in the Learning Sciences focuses on learning within a discipline, such as mathematics, chemistry, computer science, or history. An interdisciplinary faculty, hands-on research, and innovative coursework highlight contemporary methodologies and applied research and design. For more information, see http://grad.lsri.uic.edu
2. The Center for Mathematics Education at the University of Maryland, along with "Math Is More" and a group of progressive curriculum development projects, will host a conference of leaders in high school and collegiate mathematics education to be held in Washington, DC on September 25 – 27, 2008. For information, please see the conference announcement or the conference website.
3. Applications are invited for the Janet H. and C. Harry Knowles Foundation Research Fellowship in High School Science and Mathematics Teacher Education. The KSTF Young Scholars Fellowship Program was established in 2005 to support early career scholars engaged in critical research relevant to the recruitment, preparation, induction, mentoring and retention of high school science and/or mathematics teachers. The amount of $110,000, to be distributed over two years, will be awarded to up to four scholars in 2009. Pre-proposals are due June 30, 2008. The application deadline for full proposals is December 1, 2008.
4. Manuscripts are sought for TODOS: Mathematics for All Monograph #2. For additional information, please contact Rick Kitchen, TODOS Monograph Co-Editor.
5. The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project & The University of Applied Sciences (FH), Dresden (Germany) announce our 10th (Anniversary!) International Conference: “Models in Developing Mathematics Education” to be held Sep 11–17, 2009 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany in full cooperation with the Saxony Ministry of Education. International Organisers: Dr. Alan Rogerson, Coordinator of the Mathematics in Society Project (Poland) & Prof. Fayez Mina, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University (Egypt). Chair of the Local Organising Committee: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Paditz of the Dresden University of Applied Sciences. You are warmly invited to attend our conference to be held in the historic & beautiful city of Dresden. For ALL further conference details and updates please email arogerson@inetia.pl.
6. Travel Grants are available from the Association of Women in Mathematics. Deadlines: Feb 1, May 1, Oct 1.
   
7. Call for manuscripts for ON-Math journal.
   
8. New process for those outside Canada to subscribe to the journal, For the Learning of Mathematics
   
9. CLTnet : Visit the official website of the NSF-funded Centers for Learning and Teaching (CLT) . There is valuable information about recent RFPs from NSF, job opportunities, Ph.D programs in math education, and much more!
10. New Journal: Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ) published by the International Statistical Institute.