Guess what? There a terrific reform math program that promotes understanding over mindless drill! It's called Singapore Math and it's being adopted by...
Massachusetts has succeeded in turnings its schools around and now has some of the best schools in the nation. in Massachussetts Those in the school reform...
Math Classes At Elementary Schools Prompt Parents' Outcry Petition Says Curriculum Is Disservice to Students By Ian Shapira Washington Post Staff Writer ...
I found this quote at the Virginia website which I find very interesting: Dr. E.D. Hirsch - brilliant educator and best selling author on the subject of...
Cross-posted from nycmathforum, Yahoo Group from www.nychold.com <http://www.nychold.com> . This is an excellent letter responding to a letter to the editor...
Cross posting Jan. 29 post in The Ridgewood Blog http://theridgewoodblog.blogspot.com/ <http://theridgewoodblog.blogspot.com/> Tim Brennan is their Interim...
Dear Friends, The district has sent home in children's backpacks letters about the BRRSD K-4 Parents Math Survey. This survey was designed by the Everyday ...
I wish we would pilot Singapore Math here in B-R. They could try it for the kids in resource room who are clearly not succeeding with EDM. Unfortunately, the...
Bottom Line: Schools must streamline math courses, focusing on a "well-defined set of the most critical topics" from early elementary school through middle...
reconcile Everyday Math with the findings of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel? Our friend at Mindless Math Mutterings says the Panel's report does not ...
Click right here! http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/education/14math.html?ref=education <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/education/14math.html?ref=education>...
Hello, I (John Schiemann) was one of two parents who served on a committee that met over the last academic year to review Everday Math. That committee...
Please attend the Board of Education meeting this Tuesday, 9/9/2008, 8pm at the Wade Building. There will be a "Special Presentation" regarding the Everyday...
The following is a copy of Dr.Schilder's response to the Everyday Math Committee Report with comments and additions submitted by Dr. John Schiemann, a member...
Hello Everyone, Am trying to find the link of the Math Committee report submitted to Dr. Schilder and BOE. Is this available to the public yet? or will it be...
Dr. Schilder is going to form yet another committee to examine Everyday Math and alternative programs. This new committee will consist entirely of teachers...
-- Why do need yet another committe to examine Everdyay Math? The comittee already did the work. When you get a job as teacher, you teach whatever the...
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I think there is a clear line between acting as a board that provides oversight and a board that simply says - we will accept what the administrators do and...
Keep your enemies even closer: http://rationalmathed.blogspot.com/ Read what this "idiot" wrote on a blog to the parents of Long Valley New Jersey who are...
