Web Links of Interest

The following web links may be of interest in finding out more about mathematics education.

• Organizations
  • Honest Open Logical Debate on math reform (HOLD)
  • Parents Raising Educational Standards in Schools (PRESS)
  • Concerned Parents in Petaluma -- Where's The Math?
  • National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators (NCITE)
  • Electronic Educational Excellence Network (EEEN)
  • The Center for Education Reform (CER)
  • Mountain View Achievement
  • Education Consumers Clearinghouse
  • EducationNews.org
  • Organization for Quality Education
  • Association for Direct Instruction
  • Education Notes from an Illinois Parent
  • Plano Parental Rights Council
  • Arizona Parents for Traditional Education
  • Concerned Parents of Reading, Massachusetts
  • Advocates for Better Education
  • Rhode Island Parents Advocating Education Excellence
  • Advocates for Classical Traditions in Education
  • National Association of Scholars
  • Plano Independent School District Unofficial School Page
  • Read by Grade 3
  • Texas Education Consumers Association
  • School Wise Press
• Literature
  • Big Business, Race, and Gender in Mathematics Reform, by David Klein, in "How to Teach Mathematics," by Steven Krantz
  • Mathematics Recalculated, by John de Pillis, Professor of Mathematics, UC Riverside
  • A Plea in Defense of Euclidean Geometry, by Barry Simon
  • How should we group to achieve excellence with equity?, by Bonnie Grossen
  • Research and Innovation: Let the Buyer Beware, by J. E. Stone and Andrea Clements
  • Excerpts 1 , 2 , and 3 from Anderson, Reder, and Simon's Radical Constructivism and Cognitive Psychology in the book Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 1998 edited by Diane Ravitch
  • The Educational System in Japan: Case Study Findings
  • Value-Added Assessment: An Accountability Revolution by J.E. Stone
  • The Anti-Content Mindset: The Root Cause of the "Math Wars"
  • Constructivism in Education: Sophistry for a New Age, by Martin A. Kozloff
  • Education Today: The Real Story from Karen Holgate
  • Cognitive Child Abuse in Our Math Classrooms, By C. Bradley Thompson
  • Some Contradictions of Education Reform: Constructivism, High-Tech, and Multi-Culti, by Owen Thomas
  • Focus: What was that Project Follow Through?
  • Review of High Quality Experimental Mathematics Research from NCITE
  • Developmentalism: An Obscure but Pervasive Restriction on Educational Improvement, by J. E. Stone
  • Math Council Blamed For Poor Student Performance
  • Introducing Rigorous Standard Into Wisconsin Schools
  • Rigor in Calculus, by Leonard Gillman
  • The Mathematician and the Mathematics Education Reform
  • Have Math Fundamentals Gone Fuzzy?, by Betsy Van Dorn
  • Different Drummers: How Teachers of Teachers View Public Education, a Public Agenda report
  • The American Federation of Teachers looks at TIMSS
  • Setting Higher Sights from the AFT
  • TIMSS and International Exam Information Available
  • What Does it Mean to be a Research-Based Profession?, by Bonnie Grossen
  • The New School Wars: How Outcome-Based Education Blew Up
  • A Fable of Reform
  • Review of The Learning Gap
  • Mathematics Reform at Second-Tier Institutions
  • The Math Wars: California Battles it Out over Mathematics Education Reform (part I)
  • The Math Wars: California Battles it Out over Mathematics Education Reform (part II)
  • Tackling the Mathematics Problem from the London Math Society
  • Applications and Misapplications of Cognitive Psychology to Mathematics Education
  • Developmentalism: An Obscure but Pervasive Restriction on Educational Improvement
  • Educational Assessment Reassessed: The Usefulness of Standardized and Alternative Measures of Student Achievement as Indicators for the Assessment of Educational Outcomes
  • IEEE Members Speak on Math Reform
  • Some AMS members give their Views on High School Mathematics Education
  • Bonnie Grossen's page
  • Textbook Adoption in California
  • Why Johnny Can't Add, by Williamson Evers
  • Math movement robs generation of basic skills
  • Science Education & Economic Growth: Affairs Of The Nation by Dr. Shoumen Datta
  • Academics-Based Education (ABE) from San Diego County Board of Education
  • Trash the Calculator, It's Back to Basics in Britain, by Alexander MacLeod
• About Standards
  • Fordham Report: State Mathematics Standards by Ralph A. Raimi and Lawrence S. Braden
  • Fordham Report: The State of State Standards 2000
  • Developing and Implementing Academic Standards, from the Pacific Research Institute
  • HOLD's Suggestions on NCTM Standards
  • The Truth About The NCTM Standards
  • AFT Criteria For High-Quality Standards
  • The State of State Standards, by Chester E. Finn, Jr., Michael J. Petrilli, and Gregg Vanourek
  • The Decline of Academic Standards in California Education
  • The Truth About The New Jersey Math Standards
  • Putnam Valley List of Standards Links
  • What Should Children Learn?
  • An American Teacher's Search for Standards
• Standards
  • THE CALIFORNIA MATHEMATICS ACADEMIC CONTENT STANDARDS For Grades K - 12
  • San Diego Mathematics Standards
  • Academic Content Standards Site Featuring standards adopted by the California State Board of Education
  • Alternative Mathematics Standards for California
  • Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools
  • Diocese of Sacramento Mathematics Academic Content Standards for grades K - 12
  • Indiana Academic Standards 2000 Mathematics DRAFT
• Programs
  • The Core Knowledge Foundation
  • Saxon Publishers
  • Singapore - 1999 exam syllabi
  • Starting With Math A professional development program
  • Curriculum at Thomas Jefferson Charter School
  • Education Program for Gifted Youth
  • Advantage Schools
• Link Lists
  • For the Discerning Mathematics Teacher
  • George Klima's Effective Education Pages
  • Jeff Lindsay's page on Direct Instruction
  • Direct Instruction Resources
  • Welcome to the world of New New Math
• Data
  • SAT Scores for California High Schools
  • The 1996 NAEP Report
  • California Community College and California High School Academic Progress Reports
  • School Wise Press
• News Sources
  • EducationNews.org
  • San Francisco Chronicle
  • Los Angeles Times
  • San Diego Union-Tribune
  • Education Week
• The Educational Establishment
  • California Department of Education
  • Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
  • Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL)
  • Math-Teach (formerly NCTM-L) Discussion Group
  • NCTM
  • United States Department of Education