Robert Weintraub Named Calculus Project Board Chair
Robert Weintraub Named Calculus Project Board Chair
Robert Weintraub, BU Wheelock senior lecturer and director of the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program, has been named board chair of the Calculus Project.
The Calculus Project’s programs support students of color and low-income students by creating more inclusive academic settings to study calculus. Students who enter calculus in their senior year of high school are three times more likely to complete college and study STEM disciplines.
“If our nation is serious about dramatically improving math education, every school district should adopt the Calculus Project,” Weintraub says.
Weintraub has served on the Calculus Project board of directors since its founding. He worked with Calculus Project founder Adrian Mims to create the BU Calculus Project and Leadership Academy in 2015, which saw its first graduates go on to top-tier colleges and universities. That cohort also supported five students in passing the Massachusetts MTEL exam for middle school mathematics teachers while they were still in high school.
At BU Wheelock, Weintraub teaches and advises master’s and doctoral students, and has developed and led several projects, including the launch of the new EdD in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies. He is a longtime K–8 and high school principal in Lowell and Brookline.