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Opinion: Why We Need the Common Core Standards
CNN (blog)
The United States' worldwide ranking in mathematics education is a common lament among teachers, parents, students, politicians and just about anybody else who has a stake in our nation's future. The United States recently ranked 25th out of 34 developing countries in mathematics falling behind countries such as Japan, Germany and France. Ask a hundred people the cause of this situation and you'll get a hundred different answers. One reason in particular, however, is that we have hundreds — if not thousands — of different ways of teaching our students, and different ideas of what they ought to be taught.
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