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...remedy these problematic attitudes towards mathematical education in America, Gleason has become involved with the Mathematical Science Education Board, a subgroup of the National Research Council (NRC), a Washington-based organization designed to promote the study of math and science in American schools and industry...
...Gleason attends NRC conferences several times a year and discusses education policy in the U.S. with other professors and government officials...
...Gleason says that American school children today perform much worse on standardized math tests than do students from other countries, partly because of the attitude here that the ability to do math is an inherited trait--not something that can be acquired...
...explain such differences in ability, "people will point to Japan and say that Japanese children are in math class longer than American children, but that [assertion is] not really true," Gleason says. "If you look around a foreign country and ask parents what they think, they say that if you work hard, you can do math...
...Gleason says that as the number of Americans who cannot perform higher math increases, the nation is put at risk--not only in terms of mathematical research, but also in terms of factory workers' ability to perform competently...