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The myth of declining U.S. schools: another sane voice.

admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:45:12 +0000

Jay Mathews from the Washingtom Post wrote a follow up on a recent report by the Brookings Institution scholar Tom Loveless. Loveless is one of the nation's leading experts on PISA and TIMSS. He has been part of the cohorts of specialists who advise those programs. In his report he says the first international test [...]

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Can Math Be Fun in the US?

admin — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:50:27 +0000

This is a strange question. If it can be fun anywhere else, so, too, it can be fun in the US. Why not? Can it be fun for every one in the US or elsewhere? I doubt it. It seems to me that blaming the state of math education in the US became a custom, [...]

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Partial Coincidence

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:16:42 +0000

Here is a question: should students be given partial credit for incomplete solutions. I was still reading Andrei Toom's online book to which I referred in the previous post when I was advised on twitter.com that New York City Council is in turmoil over a controversial policy that gives students partial credit for wrong answers [...]

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