America needs to go on the offensive and attack its math education problems by getting rid of failed progressive math instruction and promoting proven traditional methods that prioritize mastering basic skills, computational quickness and accuracy, and getting the right answer. Harvard may have raised the white flag in teaching math, but America cannot afford to do the same.
America’s amazing technological achievements, such as SpaceX’s recent rescue of stranded astronauts, mask the death spiral of math learning in the U.S., which has reached an ignominious low with Harvard’s decision to offer remedial math.
On the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress math exam, 73 percent of eighth graders nationwide taking the test failed to score at the proficient level.
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America’s Math Collapse: Harvard Institutes Remedial Math
Lance Izumi
America needs to go on the offensive and attack its math education problems by getting rid of failed progressive math instruction and promoting proven traditional methods that prioritize mastering basic skills, computational quickness and accuracy, and getting the right answer. Harvard may have raised the white flag in teaching math, but America cannot afford to do the same.
America’s amazing technological achievements, such as SpaceX’s recent rescue of stranded astronauts, mask the death spiral of math learning in the U.S., which has reached an ignominious low with Harvard’s decision to offer remedial math.
On the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress math exam, 73 percent of eighth graders nationwide taking the test failed to score at the proficient level.
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Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.