Common Core math is on very shaky ground. First, let me say that there is nothing wrong with thinking outside the box. It has its uses when concepts of a particular subject are ingrained and ...

“A royal mess.” This is how California middle-school math teacher Barry Garelick describes math education today, especially under the Common Core national standards. In his book, Math Education in the ...

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For five years, a San Francisco foundation funded, and a research organization closely monitored, a collaboration by 10 California districts to raise achievement under the Common Core math standards.