COLUMBIA — When Brenda Smith headed off to college, she was warned that women — particularly black women — don’t do well in math. Now the MU grad is the head of the math department in Northwest Law Academy, a north-St. Louis public high school, and pushes her students to love numbers the way she does.
Teach For America corps members try to close education gap
Friday, December 12, 2008 | 4:55 p.m. CST;
updated 3:01 p.m. CST, Monday, December 15, 2008
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