Bio
Andrew Brantlinger is an associate professor of mathematics education in TLPL. His research interests pertain to urban mathematics education, teacher preparation, and critical mathematics pedagogy. Recent publications appear in Urban Education, Teachers College Record, and the Journal of Research in Mathematics Education.
Recent Articles in Refereed Journals
Brantlinger, A. (2022, March). Critical and Vocational Mathematics: Authentic Problems for Historically Marginalized Students. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education.
Callahan, P. & Brantlinger, A. (accepted for publication). Wonderful Incentives, Fulfilling Career, Giving Back, and Classroom ASAP! Alternative Route Teachers’ Reasons for Entry and Retention. Education and Urban Society.
Grant, A. & Brantlinger, A. (accepted for publication). Demography as Destiny: Explaining the Turnover of Alternatively Certified Mathematics Teachers in Hard-to-Staff Schools. Teachers College Record.
Hurst, C., & Brantlinger, A. (2022). Patterns in critical incidents: Understanding teacher retention through career decision making. Teaching and Teacher Education, 109, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103557
Brantlinger, A. (2021). Entering, Staying, Shifting, Leaving, and Sometimes Returning: A Descriptive Analysis of the Career Trajectories of Two Cohorts of Alternatively Certified Mathematics Teachers. Teachers College Record, 123(9), 1-29.
Cooley, L., Brantlinger, A., Hannaford-Simpson, S., & Shahid, R. (2021). Presumed proficiencies, credentialism, and the pedagogy of poverty: Mathematics teachers from selective alternative route programs. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 24(1), 61-87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10857-019-09449-w
Brantlinger, A., Grant, A., Miller, J., Viviani, W., Cooley, L., & Griffin, M. (2020). Maintaining Gaps in Teacher Diversity, Preparedness, Effectiveness, and Retention? A Program Theory Evaluation of Mathematics Teacher Training in the New York City Teaching Fellows. Educational Policy, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904820951117
Brantlinger, A. (2020). The Meritocratic Mystique and Mathematical Mediocrity in Hard-to-Staff Schools: A Critique of the Best and Brightest Teacher Agenda. Urban Education 55(7), 1076–1104. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085919894040
Recent Policy Briefs or Book Chapters
Brantlinger, A. & Griffin, M. (2019). Review of “The Effectiveness of Secondary Math Teachers from Teach For America and the Teaching Fellows Programs” (Institute of Education Sciences, September 2013). Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved from http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/tfa.
Branltinger, A. (2018). Humanizing and dehumanizing trends in a critical mathematics classroom. In C. Knipping, H. Straehler-Pohl, & U. Gellert (Eds.) Inside the mathematics classroom: Sociological perspectives on participation, inclusion, and enhancement. Dordrecht: Springer.
Grants
2015-2018 Principal Investigator, Examining the Career Trajectories of Urban Math Teachers from a Selective Alternative Certification Program, National Science Foundation, Core Program, ($548,929).
2009-2014 Principal Investigator, U. S. Department of Education Transition to Teaching Grant for the Maryland Science Mathematics Resident Teacher (MSMaRT) Program. ($2,000,000). Lawrence Clark, Co-PI.
TLPL 713 Foundations of Mathematics Education IV: Policy, Professional Development and Teacher Education
TLPL 790 Mixed Methods Research in Education
TLPL 792 Qualitative Research Methods II
TLPL 610 Trends in Mathematics Education
TLPL 612 Teaching Algebra in the Middle School
TLPL 616 Teaching Statistics in the Middle School