Notice that Bloomfield still likes it.
I wonder whether he is getting power/wealth/privilege from the publisher/writer/NEA; or if he thinks that NYC students don’t need to know anything.
It’s big that Texas dropped. Most textbooks are written for California, Texas, and New York.
Good for Texas. The school textbook industry is one of the most brazen criminal enterprises in the world, worse even than the cafeteria milk business. Heck, it puts the old record companies to shame. I’m pretty sure the mob is in on it, and the politicians definitely are.
Let’s just hope the real reason Texas didn’t flip them the finger is because somebody else offered the pols a bigger cut.
I have struggled against the Everyday Math program in my local school district. It is the primary reason that I pulled my children out of public school.
The basic theory of Everyday Math is that there are multiple processes that can be used in calculation. For example, there is more than one way to do division, “long division” is only one process. The concept is to introduce several processes and each student will utilize the process that clicks for them. However, there are students that need one process and lots of repetition in order to be able to properly perform that math function. Everyday Math does not support those students.
When I pulled my child out of public school, she was making a 30 in math. Three years in Saxton Math (likely what you and I grew up with), and my child just got her first A EVER in math. The change in her confidence is remarkable.