A quarter century of US ‘math wars’ and political partisanship

By D. Klein. 2007

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Beyond Missionaries or Cannibals: Who Should Teach Mathematics to African American Children? (2007, background): “…United States as being in a state of crisis and in need of reform (e.g., Braswell, Dion, Daane, & Yin, 2005; Education Trust, 2002; Jackson, 1997; Klein, 2000, 2007; Ma, 1999; National Center for Education Statistics, 2001, 2004; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1980, 1989, 2000;…”
An Experimental Evaluation of Four Elementary School Math Curricula (2010, methodology): “We used 5 years as the cutoff because research shows that a significant portion of teachers leave the profession within 5 years of entering ( Ingersoll, 2002 ).”
Dialogic and Direct Instruction: Two Distinct Models of Mathematics Instruction and the Debate(s) Surrounding Them (2015, background): “For example, the “math wars” have been largely about curriculum and particular textbook series (Klein, 2007a).”