Everard Barrett

Everard Barrett was an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury beginning in 1971 and was the President of Professor B Enterprises, Inc. until his passing in 2008. From 1962 to 1971, he taught junior and senior high school mathematics in Brooklyn, New York. He authored the Professor B methodology for mathematics education and conducted numerous interventions in elementary school mathematics education throughout the U.S. since 1973. Results, as substantiated by many statistical analyses, have been consistently strong. Over and over again, he moved his projects through the cycle of implementation, teachers' feedback, statistical evaluation and revisions. In June 1976, after three years of experimental work in the Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School, Roosevelt, New York, he broke new educational ground by enabling fifth and sixth grade classes to out-perform (by a huge margin) their ninth grade counterparts on an examination traditionally reserved for the brightest ninth graders (The New York State Ninth Year Algebra Regents Examination) throughout the state. This was subsequently repeated (on two occasions) in P.S. 44, an elementary school within central Bedford Stuyvesants Brooklyn, New York. Both Roosevelt and Bedford Stuyvesant are very disadvantaged, low socioeconomic areas of New York. After four years of implementing his methods in the Wicomico County Public School System, Maryland, in 1992, virtually every

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