What performance pay for teachers can't accomplish

WPI to help redesign Connected Math curriculum

The Connected Math Projects curriculum is used in many middle schools throughout New England.

Math ‘reform’ fails our kids

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Are we wasting money teaching math to our students? Not as in: We shouldn't be doing it in the first place. Rather, as in: We are spending the money but not teaching them anything.

What's the cause?

In the eyes of those observing it most closely, the cause is the curriculum the district has chosen for teaching them math.

Also, check out what is considered a "passing" grade - 57%

Do We Teach Math the Wrong Way?

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US Math curriculum seems to throw too many topics at children in early grades and does not structure its subject matter so that one topic builds into another.

Too Many High School Seniors Unprepared for College-Level Math and Reading

Nov 29, 2010 Alliance for Excellent Education Public Education Policy & Progress Report

RSU 13 School Board and Super in the hotseat

Jim Skoglund, form Maine State House Rep, rips into consolidation, education fads and Superintendent Lucarelli.

Numbers Wars: School Battles Heat Up Again in the Traditional versus Reform-Math Debate

Scientific American: Weak student scores fuel the fight in mathematics education.