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Author, film producer, and venture philanthropist. As education goes, so goes democracy. Trusts and respects teachers. Big baseball fan. Worried.
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The real math crisis isn’t the test scores. It’s the test

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By Ted Dintersmith
| Fast Company Verified
This past school year, Cambridge, Massachusetts, placed every eighth grader in Algebra I. It didn’t go well. Ultimately, more than 60% of rising ninth graders will repeat the course. The consequences were immediate: weeping students, angry parents, and roiling debate about the rollout, teacher support, and tracking. Lost in the shuffle was this essential point: We teach obsolete rote math that adults don’t use, while missing entirely the math that defines our lives.
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The real math crisis isn't the test scores. It’s the test

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By Ted Dintersmith, Beth Simone Noveck
| Flipboard
Students 5 hours ago UC targets high school course requirements amid SAT debate.
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America’s Math Crisis

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By Ted Dintersmith
| Yahoo Verified
—Witthaya Prasongsin—Getty Images Some leaders reduce our math crisis to two words: test scores. For decades, hopes of progress were dashed by flat to declining scores. Full-bore panic about fading global competitiveness. Urgent calls for more drills, worksheets, and double-dose tutoring. Whatever it takes, get those test scores up. But here’s the real crisis. We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way.
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