Daily Archives: January 5, 2009

Non Sequitur of the Day — More from the MMSD Math Report

[Edited 10:25 PM] Assigning a meaning and interpretation to the decline in mathematics achievement scale scores over eight years is more difficult. As indicated in Exhibit I.3, the racial composition of the MMSD changed over this same period from about … Continue reading

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MMSD Math Task Force Report, Thoughts on Teacher Preparation

In anticipation of next week’s public discusions of the Mathematics Task Force Report, I’ve been dipping into parts of that document.  So far, the section I’ve looked closest at  — Teacher Preparation — is pretty disappointing.  It isn’t that I … Continue reading

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