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Math Panel Sets Vote on Report

By Sean Cavanagh — March 04, 2008 1 min read
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The National Mathematics Advisory Panel will vote March 13 on whether to adopt its final report. The 17-member panel, commissioned by the White House to study ways to prepare students for algebra, will meet at Longfellow Elementary School, in Falls Church, Va. Its work has been compared to that of the National Reading Panel, whose 2000 report helped shape federal policy in that subject.

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A version of this article appeared in the March 05, 2008 edition of Education Week

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