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Weekly Math UpdatesNovember 22, 2006 Contents:
Happy Thanksgiving I hope you enjoy your holiday, this will be a shorter update though with a special request. To get to your weekly comic, I need you to take a quick survey below. That's about the only carrot I have to dangle in front of you so I hope it works. Another BIG Thank You Last week in my list of thank you's, I neglected to look back far enough during my euphoric moment and I really want to thank Doug and Shannon Cannon and those other pioneers that started this fight before me. We didn't know anything about each other till I'd been going strong for a few months and once we connected it was obvious they had laid significant groundwork to help our fight succeed. As in anything, some plant, some water, and some harvest but all that participate have the thanks of those that eat the bread. Well, and this never could have happened without my family's support. I owe them everything and they sacrificed a lot for this to happen. How Fast Will Things Happen? I've had a couple of questions and comments regarding the victory. The news I've heard regarding the "when" of these things is that the standards need to be done by Spring 2007. They want it ready for professional development in summer 2007. It will be implemented Fall 2007 and the new assessment tests need to be in place for Spring 2008. This is phenomenal. Everything will change. Parent Email Here's an email I got from a parent this week. Mountain Ridge does have traditional teachers, but I have heard some counselors at the school don't cooperate very well to move kids around. Don't give up. Ask to speak to the math teachers and find out who teaches Glencoe and other traditional math coursework. There are teachers at each grade level at M.R. that don't find Connected Math suitable for college preparation.
Media Articles Here's a quick recap of the articles mentioning the victory last week including a great new piece from Sunday's Tribune as well as an editorial. Math Wars Strike at Core, 'Investigations' lead to statewide review 'Fuzzy' math Curriculum war should be lesson to educators State leaders support math overhaul for schools Utah's 'fuzzy math' curriculum scrapped; legislators endorse plan to revamp state standards Weekly Comic Archive: http://www.weaponsofmathdestruction.com Till next week, Oak Norton |
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