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Iowa Education Challenges

Posted on 05/08/2026 by Joye Walker

Iowa has a tough combination of a governor and legislative majority who are anti-public schools and anti-teacher but at the same time, a department of education that marches to the Common Core drum and has managed to dumb down the … Continue reading →

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Comments on Hung-Hsi Wu’s “What is school mathematics?”

Posted on 12/04/2026 by Joye Walker

I read a document by Hung-Hsi Wu entitled “What is school mathematics?” I recall reading about some of Wu’s ideas back in the 1990s when I worked for the Department of Mathematics at The University of Iowa. Since that time, … Continue reading →

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