Everything but the elementary school math curriculum

Excerpt in response to the NYTimes piece on the PISA results:

Instead, in using terms like "taking responsibility" for ones learning, "critical thinking," "Creativity, " "Integrated curriculum," and "Authentic Problems," these authors, unwittingly or not, are echoing those terms used by supporters of our Reform Math programs to justify the continued use of a uniquely American approach to K12 math that is perpetuating, and exacerbating, or academic decline.