Parents for Quality Math Education

The Board vote on June 22 did not turn out as we might have hoped, but there is a lot to be

Alicia, That's a great piece -- a very clearly stated summary of the mess we're in here in

At least one of the candidates for the board was there last night: Jim Leous. I should have asked him

Good story in the CDT today summing up where we are right now and setting the stage for tonight's

I have added to the FILES section my open records request, the SCASD's response, and my letter to

I am still learning about the ongoing move to establish national math standards (or a national math

The Action Plan has been posted, here: http://www.scasd.org/249737814134550/lib/249737814134550/

Testimony from 6/10 BOE meeting Tonight I'll be talking about the elementary math curriculum

This is one of our groups best speakers! She received a standing ovation on a night that was all

It's amazing to me how similar our situation in SCASD is to so many places around the country:

FYI CDT has an article on the last SCASD board meeting : http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/

Heidi, As a parent who has been very annoyed with the Frederick Co BOE for making our children guinea

I'm not trying to expand the focus of this discussion forum, but do I want to post a link to this

Here is the website for a new group devoted to improving the Pennsylvania state math standards, which

While we await SCASD's plan for supplementing Investigations 2 that was promised at the May 18

(Sorry for this cross-posting. This doesn't have to do directly with math, but I am posting it

Megan, what a great site at www.stopterc.com. I can't believe I hadn't found that before...

Dr. Richard Bisk from Massachusetts came to Utah this week to help train a couple school districts in

I wouldn't take it as a bad sign that a pro-Investigations SB member got a lot of votes - so did

My "WHAT????" came when a teacher (!) said it was OK that we ranked at bottom in the world

Just a reminder to VOTE today. The turnout in these elections is ridiculously low and so your vote

Sergei, That is an excellent article! Every parent in SCASD should read this perspective of a Teach

Tomorrow, Tuesday May 19th, is Election Day and among the offices at stake are five places on the

Starting with Algebra, the curriculum becomes traditional, thank goodness. Although at the last

It now looks like we've identified a lineup of four speakers for tomorrow's meeting, in case

Again, Benchmark Elementary in Arizona uses Singapore math, is the #1 school in the state on test

Just thought I would "ping" this post to bring it to the top, in case readers of this

Hi Nikki, I'll have to ask my family how you know each other or you can email me privately. Nice

Wen, Yes, I was planning to do that - I think there are 3 or 4 of those. Thanks, Steve On May 15, 8:

Hi, Since many of you have expressed the incredible feeling of that hw I posted 2 days ago, I took