Some subscribers to EdResMeth might be interested in a discussion list post "Elizabeth Green's 'Why Do Americans Stink at Math?' " [Hake (2014)]. The abstract reads:
ABSTRACT: Elizabeth Green, in a NYT Magazine article titled "Why Do Americans Stink at Math?" at <http://nyti.ms/1o02vui> wrote: "With the Common Core . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . [[<http://www.corestandards.org/>, compatible with the reform math education methods]]. . . . . . . .
teachers are once more being asked to unlearn an old approach and learn an entirely new one, essentially on their own. Training is still weak and infrequent, and principals - who are no more skilled at math than their teachers - remain unprepared to offer support. Textbooks, once again, have received only surface adjustments, despite the shiny Common Core labels that decorate their covers. . . . . Left to their own devices, teachers are once again trying to incorporate new ideas into old scripts, often botching them in the process. . . . . . . No wonder parents and some mathematicians denigrate the reforms as "fuzzy math." In the warped way untrained teachers interpret them, they are fuzzy."
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REFERENCES [URL shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on 25 July 2014.]
Hake, R.R. "Elizabeth Green's 'Why Do Americans Stink at Math?' " online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://bit.ly/1lERqiv>.The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists and are also on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff" at <http://bit.ly/1up9jez>.