Crayton Middle School Math Teacher Wins Sliffe Award

John Rushman, math teacher at Crayton Middle School, is South Carolina’s first recipient of the Edyth May Sliffe Award for Distinguished Junior High/Middle School Mathematics Teaching, presented by the American Mathematical Association.

The award recognizes teachers who have contributed substantially to the success of some of the highest-scoring students on the American Mathematics Contest 8. Rushman was selected because of the outstanding performance of the top three students at Crayton each of the past three years.

The award is made possible by a bequest of Ms. Sliffe, a former math teacher in California, and has been presented to middle-school teachers since 1995.