A blog reader sent me this link this morning and I found it very interesting. It seems in Oswego Illinois the Board of Education is set to adopt Everyday Math over the objections of parents (probably because the administrators are clairvoyant for the needs of our children 20 years from now). You can read the article yourself, but for me here are the key take aways:
After lots of reflection, elementary schools here are expected to adopt an updated version of the same math program that triggered parent concerns this past fall.
David Van Boekel, the father of three children in Oswego schools, said he would have preferred a program with “more emphasis on fact mastery (and) less reliance on calculators and games.
Mother Susan Beyer said she felt during the committee’s deliberation process “that the whole deck was stacked against everything else but Everyday Math from the beginning.”
Did you ever have the feeling that McGraw Hill has an Everyday Math play book that they use to sell this junk? It seems that the whole thing plays out like this school district after school district. Parent get upset for the same reasons, board of eds implement it but it is a forgone conclusion, and McGraw Hill makes another sale. I wonder (and I really know) there is a play book for getting rid of this junk.
Eric
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everyday math program // June 1, 2008 at 11:39 pm
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