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Grizzled Veterans of America's Math Wars

Barack-A-Sorros Wrote: Aug 01, 2010 9:08 PM
One of the reasons Obama shut down the School Voucher Program for Washington D.C. is that a funny thing happens to Black people who get a good education, work hard for everything they have, accumulate wealth and plan for the future. They begin to vote for Republicans.
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I am a veteran of the math wars. I was there in 1995 when the shiny new California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) test told graders to award a higher score to a student who incorrectly answered a math problem about planting trees -- but wrote an enthusiastic essay -- than to a student who got the answer right, but with no essay.

The genius responsible for that math question explained that her goal was to present eighth-graders with "an intentionally ambiguous problem in which no one pattern can be considered the absolute answer." Gov. Pete Wilson's education czar, Maureen DiMarco, promptly dubbed...

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