Month: January 2026

Bridging Research and Practice in STEM Teacher Education

Marina Milner-Bolotin

Reflections Ahead of My Talk at the Fields Institute On January 31st, I will have the honour of presenting at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in Toronto, speaking about an issue that has shaped much of my… Read moreBridging Research and Practice in STEM Teacher Education

Forty years later: Challenger, Chernobyl, and the cost of weak STEM foundation

Marina Milner-Bolotin

  April 26, 1986 (almost exactly three month after the Challenger disaster) is a day I will never forget. My uncle and aunt had invited me to spend the weekend at their cottage by a lake near Kharkiv, where we… Read moreForty years later: Challenger, Chernobyl, and the cost of weak STEM foundation