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From: longnshort	1/20/2005 11:40:47 AM
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Anti-racist' math "The [Newton, Mass.] school department was recently forced to publicly admit that the sixth-grade [Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System] math scores have steadily declined over the past three years to the point where 32 percent of sixth-graders are now in the 'warning' or 'needs improvement' category. ... "Between 1999 and 2001 ... the math curriculum was redesigned to emphasize 'Newton's commitment to active anti-racist education' for the elementary and middle schools. This meant that no longer were division, multiplication, fractions and decimals the first priority for teaching math. For that matter, the teaching of math was no longer the first priority for math teachers. ... "Nowhere among the first priorities for the math curriculum guidelines is the actual teaching of math. That's a distant second. ... [M]athematical problem-solving is of secondary importance to anti-racist/anti-bias math. "Meanwhile, the sixth-grade MCAS math scores keep going down. ... "When a school department determines that ideology should take priority over academics, standardized test scores gradually decline and educational standards suffer." — Tom Mountain, writing on "Math curriculum doesn't add up," Jan. 12 in the Newton (Mass.) Tab

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