Students who hope to graduate from high school are now required to pass algebra, a notoriously difficult subject. And educators across the state are hoping group work will help meet the challenge. We need to know more. So Stone sits and watches groups of students at work. Her camera catches them on videotape.
Wireless microphones catch the conversations.
She pulls students aside for individual interviews. If she can find additional grant funding, Stone plans to expand her analysis to other types of classes and even to playgrounds and the neighborhoods in which students live. She envisions a small army of graduate students doing the same type of fieldwork she's now doing.