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Adding to the math morass was the fact that 49 states (all but Iowa) devised their own math standards, with up to 100 different goals for each grade level. Textbook publishers responded with textbooks that tried to incorporate every goal of every state. "There are some 700-page third-grade math books out there," says N.C.T.M.'s current president Francis (Skip) Fennell, professor of education at Maryland's McDaniel College...
While this may not fit in with the editors’ pre-conceived notions that “open publication will create a morass from which science might not emerge,” it is impossible to deny the overwhelming evidence that the best-known example of online publishing has been an outstanding success...
...process strengthens papers, as authors are forced to defend their research’s weaknesses—without peer review the temptation to prematurely publish incomplete or uncontrolled experiments will be formidable. Far from “a marketplace of ideas,” open publication will create a morass from which science might not emerge. Results will be duplicated, communication retarded, and progress slowed to a standstill. Proponents of open publication who point to advances such as Grigori Perelman’s recent proof of the Poincaré conjecture, which was posted online instead of submitted to a journal...
...Iraq were a sign of weakness. This was infuriating. It was Bush's disastrous decision to go to war-and worse, to go to war with insufficient resources-that transformed Iraq into a terrorist Valhalla. It is Bush's feckless prosecution of the war that has created the current morass, in which a U.S. military withdrawal could lead to a regional conflagration. Rove may avert another electoral embarrassment this November with the same old demagoguery, but his strategy has betrayed the nation's best interests. It has destroyed any chance of a unified U.S. response to a crisis overseas. Even...
...almost unprecedented peaceful Arab transfer of power following democratic elections has lately looked anything but peaceful. By refusing to deal with or fund a government led by Hamas, or even allow the transfer of funds from friendly Arab neighbors, the U.S. and the European Union have added to a morass of problems that have plunged the entire Palestinian Authority into crisis and given Fatah an opportunity to claw its way back into power - principally, for now, by sparking a conflict over the control and make-up of the Palestinian security forces...