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It is always interesting when a probability question produces a counter-intuitive result, and the following “glimpse a heart” question is a wonderful example of that:-

hardproblemsmovie.com is the website of a documentary made about the US team in the 2006 International Math Olympiad.
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Although American students on the whole rank well behind many countries in mathematics, American math Olympiad teams regularly finish among the top teams. While aiming to inspire and entertain, Hard Problems provides an insightful and thoughtful look at [...]

From the MathForum newsletter:
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David Crockett Johnson was perhaps most famous for his children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon. From 1965 until his death in 1975, Crockett Johnson painted over 100 works relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Of these paintings, eighty are found in the collections of the [...]

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Free market flawed, says survey.

A couple of recent additions to the arsenal of reasons for promoting mathematics education are this recent article by Ian Stewart in the UK Telegraph and the collection of ‘Math Matters - Apply It’ posters developed by SIAM (the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics).

The Stanford Study of Writing provides a welcome counterpoint to some of the nonsense that has been put about regarding impact of the internet on literacy.

Stephen Downes points to Chad Adelman posting on Crossing the Finish Line - a recent book about university graduation rates by William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos & Michael S. McPherson.
I haven’t read the book but am suspicious of any attempt to draw conclusions about social policy from statistical analysis - especially in reviews [...]

Media Democracy Day Vancouver - November 7, 2009 | Media Democracy Day.

The Back Page article by Joseph Ganem in this month’s APS News suggests that nominal content and student capability outcomes in US high school mathematics are moving in opposite directions - and attributes this largely to attempts to introduce abstract topics before the students are ready.