Behind the Headline: How Common Core Brought Attention To The Math Education Debate

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How Common Core Brought Attention To The Math Education Debate
2/17/15| State Impact (NPR)

Behind the Headline
The Common Core Math Standards
Summer 2012 | Education Next

John O’Connor takes a close look at some of the debates that are taking place over how math is taught in states that are implementing the Common Core standards and at the long history of debates over math instruction.

In an Education Next forum, Ze’ev Wurman and Stephen Wilson debated whether the Common Core math standards were a step forward or a step backward.

Barry Garelick has written about the math wars for Education Next here and here.

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