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Showing posts with label policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label policy. Show all posts

Feeling around in the dark to understand the elephant of local control

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The view from my new office. Educationally, Colorado is a "local control" state, and I know this because I've heard many p...

NCTM's Grand Challenges and Opportunities in Mathematics Education Research

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Last summer, the NCTM Research Committee asked members to identify grand challenges in mathematics education (written about here and here )...

NCTM's Grand Challenge

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This post first appeared at CLIME Connections . I thank Ihor Charischak ( @climeguy ) for reaching out and encouraging me to think more deep...

On Major Problems and Grand Challenges, Part 2

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Prompted by NCTM's call for "grand challenges," in my last post I looked back at Hans Freudenthal's 1981 "Major Prob...

NCTM New Orleans 2014:Levine's The Coming Transformation of American Education: Implications for Mathematics Education

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Dr. Arthur Levine - President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (amongst other things) NCTM Research Conference - Monday, April 7, 7:00 pm...

NCTM Annual Meeting Fee Frustration (Updated 9-18)

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I was recently informed by NCTM that my proposal to speak at the 2014 NCTM Annual Meeting was accepted. That's the good news. Unlike la...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 6 of 6, Focusing the Council on Standards)

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(See Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , and Part 5 of this six-part series.) The successful release of the 1989 NCTM Standards paved the ...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 5 of 6, Making a Draft Widely Available for Review; Publishing and Promoting)

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(See Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , and Part 4 of this six-part series.) So far this series has described the first three of six characteristic...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 4 of 6, Establishing and Supporting Working Groups)

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(See Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 of this six-part series.) NCTM's standards-writing process began in 1986 when the Council proposed th...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 3 of 6, Meeting a [Perceived] Need)

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(See Part 1 and Part 2 of this six-part series.) "Exactly where the Agenda 's call for action might have led without the appearan...