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	<title>Where's The Math?</title>
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	<description>Parents &#038; Educators for a World-Class Math Education For Washington  State Students.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>OSPI subjects children and taxpayers in Washington State to another flawed process</title>
		<link>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/06/26/ospi-subjects-children-and-taxpayers-in-washington-state-to-another-flawed-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mathematics Instructional Materials Review
 June 24, 2008
  For Immediate Release
Washington State&#8217;s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) has been responsible for misguided educational leadership for over a decade.&#160; Recently,  OSPI&#8217;s work in rewriting the state math standards was so defective that the legislature had to intervene and reassign the editing process to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State Math Curricula Selection Veers off Track under Terry Bergeson</title>
		<link>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/05/28/washington-state-math-curricula-selection-veers-off-track-under-terry-bergeson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/05/28/washington-state-math-curricula-selection-veers-off-track-under-terry-bergeson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 00:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington State Math Curricula Selection Veers Off Track Under Terry Bergeson
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The quality   of the K-8 math curricula provided to Washington State students will play a   critical role in deciding whether our children will be ready to compete for   the jobs of the 21st century.&#160;  Unfortunately, the Office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing the rigor of Washington schools</title>
		<link>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/05/28/increasing-the-rigor-of-washington-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/05/28/increasing-the-rigor-of-washington-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 22:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
An argument for increasing rigor in Washington state&#8217;s public-education system comes from this factoid: High-school students can graduate with straight A&#8217;s but still fall short of college requirements. The culprit is low academic standards, especially in math. State high-school graduation requirements include a math requirement that doesn&#8217;t meet the level required by the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conflict of interest in curriculum selection</title>
		<link>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/05/26/conflict-of-interest-in-curriculum-selection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/05/26/conflict-of-interest-in-curriculum-selection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 04:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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This is the same problem that the medical community has been dealing with where researchers are taking consulting money from pharma companies.  The peer reviewed journals are now requiring these researchers to disclose these connections because of the potential for bias / conflict of interest in both the research being performed and the outcomes.
We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judging Books by Their Covers</title>
		<link>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/05/07/judging-books-by-their-covers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/05/07/judging-books-by-their-covers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Washington state has new Mathematics standards, OPSI will be moving on to textbook selection. For those who don&#8217;t know how textbook selection is done, we link to &#8220;Judging Books by Their Covers&#8221; which appeared as a chapter in &#8220;Surely You&#8217;re Joking, Mr. Feynman!&#8221;. In this essay, Richard Feynman relates his experiences reviewing mathematics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Board of Education approves new grade school math standards</title>
		<link>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/04/30/state-board-of-education-approves-new-grade-school-math-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/04/30/state-board-of-education-approves-new-grade-school-math-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Students in kindergarten through eighth grade will be held to more concrete standards when it comes to math, thanks to a revision of standards approved by the State Board of Education on Monday.
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Although the Board of Education touts the new standards as something other states will aspire to match, the plan recently met with criticism. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices</title>
		<link>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/04/30/study-suggests-math-teachers-scrap-balls-and-slices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8230; many educators in recent years have incorporated more and more examples from the real world to teach abstract concepts. The idea is that making math more relevant makes it easier to learn.
That idea may be wrong, if researchers at Ohio State University are correct.
&#8230;
Dr. Kaminski and her colleagues Vladimir M. Sloutsky and Andrew F. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Mathematics Advisory Panel Releases Final Report</title>
		<link>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/03/14/national-mathematics-advisory-panel-releases-final-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/03/14/national-mathematics-advisory-panel-releases-final-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced the release of the final report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel.
The Washington Post reports:

Panel Urges Schools to Emphasize Core Math Skills
A presidential panel declared math education in the United States &#8220;broken&#8221; yesterday and called on schools to focus on ensuring that children master fundamental skills that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPR Audio: Pi day and other math stories.</title>
		<link>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/03/14/npr-audio-pi-day-and-other-math-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singapore math in L.A. Schools
Day to Day, March 13, 2008 · A new way of teaching math is helping students at some Los Angeles schools improve their test scores. &#8220;Singapore Math&#8221; was controversial at first. Now a presidential advisory panel is poised to issue guidelines that use the method.
Massachusetts Makes Strides in Math Curriculum
All Things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislature passes Math Standards task to SBE</title>
		<link>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/03/13/legislature-passes-math-standards-task-to-sbe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/2008/03/13/legislature-passes-math-standards-task-to-sbe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SB 6534, has just passed the legislature and is on its way to the Governor for signature.  The main purpose is to describe the new process and timetable for the final leg of the math standards revision process.  It also gives the State Board of Education, rather than OSPI the final say in [...]]]></description>
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