American education is every bit as polarized, red and blue, as American politics. On the crimson, conservative end of the spectrum are those who adhere to the back-to-basics credo: Kids, practice ...

I read with great interest, and no small amount of sympathy, the Seattle Times story about high school seniors who may not graduate because they have not passed the state required math test. As Times ...

I am a veteran of the math wars. I was there in 1995 when the shiny new California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) test told graders to award a higher score to a student who incorrectly answered a ...

As a quick survey of mid- and late-twentieth century Math Wars will show, every stab at reform has had roughly the same aims. Common Core math is no different—it’s meant to make problem-solving ...

I’ve had a lot of people tell me there’s been a reduction, however slight or gradual, in the level of bluster and acrimony emanating from various combatants in the so-called “math wars” in recent ...

It’s time to call a truce in the math wars. You know what I mean. The homework comes home in the backpack, unrecognizable, with circles and dots and arrows where equations used to be. The kids ask for ...

1997 saw the height of the Math Wars in California. On the one side stood educrats, who advocated mushy math - or new-new math. They sought to de-emphasize math skills, such as multiplication and ...

While debates rage over how to teach math, kids aren't learning and teachers are struggling. In spite of valiant efforts on the part of Washington educators, too many students are underperforming on ...

I am a veteran of the math wars. I was there in 1995 when the shiny new California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) test told graders to award a higher score to a student who incorrectly answered a ...

Hold on to your graphing calculators: The passionate, contentious debate over how California students should learn math is ready to erupt again. While math formulas and properties may be delightfully ...