An Interactive Learning Design Blog

An Interactive Learning Design Blog

Aug 12, 2008

California Math Wars

The Chronicle has an article up on Superintendent of Education's response to the new algebra standards pushed by the governor:
O'Connell to Schwarzenegger: Here's the bill, where's the cash?
O'Connell estimates the bill for this failed policy decision at 3.7 Billion dollars.
In my eyes, this is just a continuation of the math wars of the nineties; it appears that the power of the small band of fundamentalist fanatics who run the Mathematically Correct: website still outweighs the opinions and wishes of the math teachers actually in the trenches...

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