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Synthesis of research that supports the principles of the CPM Educational Program: Dr. Tom Sallee, U.C. Davis PDF (264KB)

Brief History of math curricula and testing, pp. 14-17 of:
What Doesn't Work: The Challenge and Failure of the What Works Clearinghouse to Conduct Meaningful Reviews of Studies of Mathematics Curricula (PDF), by Alan H. Schoenfeld (Educational Researcher [American Educational Research Association], Vol. 35, No. 2, March 2006)

Fordham Gets Failing Grade for Its State Standards “Report Cards”
(Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice, September 11, 2006)

What the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics has to say about teamwork and communication

Study: Teachers should emphasize math concepts (Associated Press, March 26, 2003)

In the pursuit of classroom alchemy
by Jeff Lantos [Opinion] (St. Paul Pioneer Press, September 24, 2006)

Commissioner's Remarks: The Release of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) Video Study of Eighth-Grade Mathematics Teaching by Valena W. Plisko, Associate Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics

How Does It Add Up? Views on Math Education by Alfred Posamentier, Ph.D. (Education Update, February 2003)

Trivial Pursuits by Ronald A. Wolk (Teacher Magazine, January 2003)

Reform math education, commentary by Robert Reys (Christian Science Monitor, November 15, 2002)

Moving Instruction to Center Stage by David T. Gordon (Harvard Education Letter, September/October 2002)

A New Model for the Mathematics Classroom
"Cooperative Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics: Issues That Matter and Strategies That Work" book review by Dana Sobyra (The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 27, 2001)

Presidential Views: Interview with Hyman Bass (Notices, American Mathematical Society, March 2001) PDF Version (54KB)

Let teachers teach, letter to the editor by Ken Rolling, executive director, Chicago Annenberg Challenge (Chicago Sun Times, February 19, 2001)

Yours Is Not To Reason Why, commentary by Anne M. Collins (Education Week on the Web, September 6, 2000) [registration required]

A Teacher in the Trenches of the Nation's Math Wars by Richard Rothstein (New York Times, April 12, 2000)

A Response to the Critics by James Fey, Professor, Departments of Curriculum & Instruction and Mathematics, University of Maryland (American School Board Journal, April 2000)

A Teaching Style That Adds Up by David J. Hoff (Education Week on the Web, February 23, 2000) [registration required]

State Board Sides with 'Elite' Professors by Kathleen Cairns (Education Beat, June 25, 1999)

Are the Traditionalists Mathematically Right? by Rick Casey (San Antonio Express News, February 21, 1999)

The Mathematical Miseducation of America's Youth: Ignoring Research and Scientific Study in Education by Michael T. Battista (Phi Delta Kappan, February 1999)

Parrot Math by Thomas O'Brien (Phi Delta Kappan, February 1999)

Researchers Trace Nation's TIMSS Showing to 'Basics' by Millicent Lawton (Education Week, February 18, 1998)

Back to Basics–Wrong Answer for Math by John Dossey (San Francisco Chronicle, September 5, 1997)

University Mathematics Professors Perspectives on Mathematics Education... (April-October 1995)

Research: Examples that Imply the Need for Change (1985-1993)