The city schools are spending this week focusing on tolerance and respect. (NY1)
Parents are organizing a “bake-in” to protest the city’s new bake sale rules. (Daily News)
City Limits offers an overview of the city schools’ dismal budget outlook.
The proposed state budget would eliminate many summer camp jobs for teenagers. (Times)
Diane Ravitch summarizes why her education policy views changed over time. (Wall Street Journal)
A man with a gun was killed by police outside Brooklyn’s PS 194 just after school let out. (Times)
The Everyday Math program used in NYC is credited with test-score gains in D.C. (Washington Post)
rosie
Everyday Math – the worst math curriculum ever.
District 13 parent
Everyday Math is dreadful. It’s partly the spiraling curriculum; nothing is ever taught thoroughly, and there’s little to help the children explain how one subject area leads into the next. It’s partly the lack of emphasis on basic arithmetic, so that they are exposed to concepts without having learned the basic math skills to help them with real problem solving. And it’s partly that the curriculum is poorly written and edited, so that word problems and explanations are often unintelligible. If it were not for the fact that the New York state math tests have gotten so easy, I think the poor design of Everyday Math would have been exposed ages ago.
Mary
What do teachers here think of Everyday Math vs. Singapore? My daughter’s class just switched from Everyday Math to Singapore. I’m no expert, so I’d love to hear teachers and any other expert weigh in on this. Thanks!
QueensParent
I’d say with the exception of geometry, Everyday Math is a bad math curriculum. It doesn’t concentrate of fundamentals enough. I wish I had a dollar for each hour of extra home preparation (with other math textbooks including the ones I used in middle and high school) I’ve spent with my two children un-learning what EM taught them, and it only got worse as they got into middle school.
John Hancock
I find that EM spirals to much and is way way disjointed for mastering the basics. It is easier for the teachers to use than Investigations which requires more background knowledge (Knowledge every teacher should have) When we started we were an exempt school (scoring in the top 200) we then chose Investigations. Just my 2 cents
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