[G8 Diplomat]

and now wonder we're doing so badly

*meant to write no wonder... I might also add that many of the teachers don't know the material themselves, and that our math scores reached an all-time low under the Clinton administration.

[toru watanabe]

This is one thing for which I don't think it's fair to blame Clinton. Math education has been going down the tubes for decades, and teachers during Clinton's years were products of the shoddy education and pedagogy to come long before them.