Excellence in teaching

Jet, June 19, 2006

Little Rock's (AR) Hall High School mathematics teacher Michelle Denise Carr-Jackson displays the 2005 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching she received from (I-r) Arden L. Bement, Jr., director of the National Science Foundation, and John H. Marburger III, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, during ceremonies at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C.

Carr-Jackson, a native of Little Rock, has been teaching at Hall for nine years. This year, she is the only Black among the 100 7th- through 12th-grade teachers across the U.S. and the only mathematics winner from Arkansas to receive the award that is the nation's highest honor for teaching in math and science.