Equity in Math Education Research Grants (EMERG) Program

The Equity in Math Education Research Grants (EMERG) Program supports individual research projects focused on reconceptualizing the foundations of equitable and ambitious mathematical experiences for K-12 learners, specifically for populations who have historically not had access to such opportunities. For purposes of the EMERG Program, these include learners from traditionally underserved populations (African-American, Latine, Indigenous communities) and from communities experiencing persistent inter-generational poverty. The program supports ten early career research grants and provides EMERG Scholars with a network of mid-career and senior scholars and practitioners to challenge and cultivate their proposed ideas. Together, the EMERG Scholars and their advisors will form a powerful research community and participate in the design of a conceptual framework to improve current knowledge of how learners from these communities achieve mathematical proficiency. The program aims to foster professional development of early career scholars, cultivate a community of emergent, mid-career, and senior scholars who will usher in new approaches to mathematics education research, and develop a conceptual framework that guides future research leading to forms of mathematics education worthy of all students, especially those under-served by existing structures.