Academics Urge Riley To Reconsider Math Endorsements
Nearly 200 mathematicians, physicists, and other scholars urged U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley last week to withdraw his department's seal of approval from math programs for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Venturing deep into the "math wars" for the first time, federal officials last month designated 10 mathematics programs as either "exemplary" or "promising" based on a two-year review of their effectiveness. ( "Ed. Dept. To Release List of Recommended Math Programs," Oct. 6, 1999.) But the academics, in a signed letter published as a full-page advertisement in The Washington Post Nov. 18, said the government had acted too hastily.
Some of the programs, they asserted, neglect to teach skills as basic as multiplying two-digit...
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