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 Jason Zimba

COFOUNDER & SENIOR ADVISOR

FOUNDING PARTNER, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT PARTNERS

I was a lead author of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M). Before that, I was a professor and researcher in astronomy, astrophysics, theoretical physics, philosophy of science, and pure mathematics. Over the years I've taught math and physics to university students, high school students, and incarcerated adults. In my spare time I enjoy reading, writing, driving, and cooking. As a product of the public schools from kindergarten to my high school graduation, and as a first-generation college student from a poor background, the central fact of my own life has been liberation through education. I work in education because I want that for others.

Some of the projects I’ve worked on that prepared the way for the Math Milestones initiative: 

  • Created a research base on state standards, international math performance, career readiness, and postsecondary readiness, and with David Coleman co-authored the 2007 “Fewer, Clearer, Higher” memo to the Carnegie Commission.

  • Member of the committee that produced the 2009 College and Career Readiness Standards, which were then back-mapped to create CCSS-M.

  • Member of the three-person Writing Team for CCSS-M; lead content architect of the K–8 mathematics standards.

  • Lead author of the PARCC assessment blueprints and Model Content Frameworks for mathematics; contributing author of the Smarter Balanced content specifications for mathematics.

  • Lead author of the Publishers’ Criteria for Mathematics, which led to the formation of EdReports and their curriculum alignment rubric.

  • Creator of the Coherence Map, now a widely used tool on achievethecore.org.