Word: math
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...says that the board is trying to improve communication among leaders in math education nationwide and to promote changes in the way math is taught in American schools...
...early 1960s it seemed as if math was going to improve, but then Vietnam came along as a political preoccupation, and everything collapsed. There needs to be a new operation aimed at every angle," he says...
...object is to coordinate communication and leadership to do something good for math education in America," he says...
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...