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Wherein we excoriate Everyday Mathematics and also demonstrate the plausibility of letting secondary-grade students use calculators
As Joanne Jacobs notes (hat tip), some of the questions on the NYC-used and Texas-rejected Everyday Mathematics series are just absurd: if math were a color, a food, a type of weather, or a political party, … oh, wait. We have a mashup: if your political party were a color, what would it be? I’ve […]
Eduwonkette on NAEP Exemptions
It’s not part of her theme this week (exploring Fordham and Ogbu’s “acting white” hypothesis), but her post on Lies, Damned Lies, and NAEP Exemptions is still required reading, following up on Elizabeth Green’s story in the New York Sun on the large number of exemptions in New York City’s urban NAEP testing.
Finger-pointing 101
Charles Barone responds to news of the delay of NCLB reauthorization with a lament that (at least in his view) unions are crowing over a political victory. He broadens the field a tiny bit and then engages in a touch of nostalgia for times that never were: …in the education arena, there was a time […]
Janie’s mother endorses cliff-diving
“You’re too young for make-up, Sweetie. Wait ’til you’re sixteen.”“I’m not Janie’s mother. I don’t do this to be mean.”“If those clothes fit any tighter, you would bust out every seam!”When did my mother slip inside of me?— Brenda Sutton, Mama’s Hands For those of you who truly wanted a test of the famous parental […]
The Bloomberg-Klein attack on Diane Ravitch
The key clause from Diane Ravitch’s reflections on the smear campaign aimed at her recently: … if they could silence me, I would serve as an example to anyone else who criticized them. Ravitch is is right: as a well-known, respected, and outspoken critic, she is the safest of Klein’s critics. A visible attack on […]