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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Wayne Bishop’s Response to Ratner and Wu (Wall Street Journal)
Making Math Education Even Worse, by Marina Ratner, http://online.wsj.com/articles/marina-ratner-making-math-education-even-worse-1407283282 ———————————————— Dear Hung-Hsi, It pains me to write but in spite of all of your precollegiate mathematics education knowledge and contributions, Prof. Ratner got it right and you “missed the boat” … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, Education policy, K-12, math, Mathematics, Wayne Bishop
Tagged common core, math standards
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PEER PRESSURE: Academic Incentives & Rewards for Secondary Students
PEER PRESSURE Academic Incentives & Rewards for Secondary Students Heartland Institute Will Fitzhugh The Concord Review 2 July 2014 In their new book, Rewards: How to use rewards to help children learn—and why teachers don’t use them … Continue reading
Posted in College prep, Education policy, K-12, Will Fitzhugh
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Why do Americans stink at math?
New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: “Why do Americans stink at math. Some of the answer”, by Wayne Bishop. http://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v10n2.htm
Posted in College prep, Education policy, K-12, Mathematics
Tagged Elizabeth Green, fuzzy math, international, math education, mathematics
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