President's Choice: President's Report: Better Teaching, Better Mathematics: Are They Enough?

2006 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. 312-319
Author(s):  
F. Joe Crosswhite
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Past ◽  
What Works ◽  
The Us

The favorite article of a past NCTM president chosen for reprise as part of the celebration of the journal's 100th volume year. This article reports on the health of school mathematics education in the mid-1980's, right after the US Department of Education published What Works. SIMS reported our very best student did not compare well with their counterparts in other countries. Have we made any strides forward in the past 20 years to meeting the challenge laid out in the article?

Should Political Scientists Care about Civic Education?

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1135-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Battistoni
Keyword(s):  
Civic Education ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
K 12 ◽  
American Political Science

For the past decade, concern about a crisis in civic education and engagement, especially among young people, has been rampant. In 2003, The Civic Mission of Schools report sounded a clarion call for greater attention to citizenship education in K–12 schools and touched off a national campaign, joined by such luminaries as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, advocating improvements in the way we educate American youth for participation in democracy. Two years later, the work of the American Political Science Association's Committee on Civic Education and Engagement culminated in the publication of Democracy at Risk, which examined growing trends toward civic disengagement and proposed reforms to reinvigorate political participation in the United States. Just last year, a joint effort by the US Department of Education and the Association of American Colleges and Universities produced A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy's Future, once again chronicling a “civic recession” across the land and issuing a “National Call to Action” for higher education to do more to educate young citizens for democracy.

… and now synthesis: a theoretical model for mathematics education

1965 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-141
Author(s):  
Vincent J. Glennon
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past

The title of this paper is evidence of my long-standing concern for the third aspect of the Hegelian triad—thesis, antithesis, and synthesis—as it applies to mathematics education. Hegel, we recall, interpreted societal change as a reconciliation of opposites, a thesis and its antithesis, into a higher union or integration which he called synthesis. In a very real sense, we can use this conceptual model to interpret the changes that have taken place in school mathematics programs in recent years (and even over the past several thousand years) as man has attempted to select and transmit this segment of the culture.

Implementing The K–4 Mathematics Standards in Kentucky

1993 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 166-169
Author(s):  
William S. Bush
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Mathematics Standards ◽  
The Past ◽  
Education Of Students

The state motto of Kentucky is “United We Stand—Divided We Fall.” Never has this creed been so evident than through the recent statewide mathematics education reform efforts in grades K–4. Over the past two years, university faculty, classroom teachers, school administrators, public policymakers, the Kentucky Department of Education, and corporations have developed partnerships to initiate systemic changes in the mathematics education of students in grades K–4. These groups banded together to enact for Kentucky the vision set forth by the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 1989).

Letters to the editor

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Johnny W. Lott
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
The Past

Lyrics from the ever-so-popular 1980 song by Kool and the Gang seem to be a fitting way to kick off the twenty-fifth year of Teaching Children Mathematics (TCM). This milestone volume year will be one of joyous celebration as we commemorate the journal's numerous contributions to elementary school mathematics education during the past quarter of a century.

scholarly journals Information Needs in the 21st Century: Will ERIC Be Ready?

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Rudner
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Information Analysis ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Education Community ◽  
The Us ◽  
Information Center

Ubiquitous for 35 years, the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is known for its database and recently for its range of web-based information services. I contend that federal policy with regard to ERIC must change and that ERIC will need massive restructuring in order to continue to meet the information needs of the education community. Five arguments are presented and justified: 1) ERIC is the most widely known and used educational resource of the US Department of Education, 2) senior OERI and Department of Education officials have consistently undervalued, neglected, and underfunded the project, 3) ERIC’s success is due largely to information analysis and dissemination activities beyond ERIC’s contracted scope, 4) information needs have changed dramatically in the past few years and ERIC cannot keep up with the demands given its current resources, and 5) the ERIC database itself needs to be examined and probably redesigned.

Focal Point: The Cambridge Conference on School Mathematics

1964 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-210
Author(s):  
J. Fred Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject

Within the past year a potentially significant influence on the mathematics curriculum and on mathematics education has become the subject of much interest and discussion. We refer to that which is known simply as “The Cambridge Conference on School Mathematics.”

Looking for the research listing?

1971 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 358
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
The Past ◽  
School Research ◽  
Research In Mathematics Education

For the past fourteen years the Arithmetic Teacher has published an annual listing of research on elementary school mathematics, grades K-8.1 This year that listing will be published instead in the November issue of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education (JRME). In addition to research reports on elementary school mathematics, it will include reports of secondary school research.

Advances In Asthma Care

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Garvey
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Costs ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Asthma Care ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
Clinical Criteria ◽  
Asthma Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Examination Process

Asthma rates in the US have risen during the past 25 years, as have asthma-related morbidity and healthcare costs. Professional organizations involved in asthma care have identified the need to assure that an advanced level of asthma knowledge and skill is available to patients with asthma, their families, and insurers. This need led to development of the certification for asthma educators. The Certified Asthma Educator (AE-C) must meet specific clinical criteria and pass a standardized examination designed to evaluate knowledge and skill for providing competent asthma education and coordination. The development and current status of the Certified Asthma Educator examination process and content are discussed, as are goals of the certification

BP Global Energy Outlook 2030

2013 ◽  
pp. 109-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Rühl
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Net Energy ◽  
Global Energy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Market Shares ◽  
The Us ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Oil Gas

This paper presents the highlights of the third annual edition of the BP Energy Outlook, which sets out BP’s view of the most likely developments in global energy markets to 2030, based on up-to-date analysis and taking into account developments of the past year. The Outlook’s overall expectation for growth in global energy demand is to be 36% higher in 2030 than in 2011 and almost all the growth coming from emerging economies. It also reflects shifting expectations of the pattern of supply, with unconventional sources — shale gas and tight oil together with heavy oil and biofuels — playing an increasingly important role and, in particular, transforming the energy balance of the US. While the fuel mix is evolving, fossil fuels will continue to be dominant. Oil, gas and coal are expected to converge on market shares of around 26—28% each by 2030, and non-fossil fuels — nuclear, hydro and renewables — on a share of around 6—7% each. By 2030, increasing production and moderating demand will result in the US being 99% self-sufficient in net energy. Meanwhile, with continuing steep economic growth, major emerging economies such as China and India will become increasingly reliant on energy imports. These shifts will have major impacts on trade balances.

World Economy: Prospects and Barriers for Recovery

2012 ◽  
pp. 61-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ershov
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Western World ◽  
Short Time Period ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Junk Bonds ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Us ◽  
Global Liquidity ◽  
Short Time

According to the latest forecasts, it will take 10 years for the world economy to get back to “decent shape”. Some more critical estimates suggest that the whole western world will have a “colossal mess” within the next 5–10 years. Regulators of some major countries significantly and over a short time‑period changed their forecasts for the worse which means that uncertainty in the outlook for the future persists. Indeed, the intensive anti‑crisis measures have reduced the severity of the past problems, however the problems themselves have not disappeared. Moreover, some of them have become more intense — the eurocrisis, excessive debts, global liquidity glut against the backdrop of its deficit in some of market segments. As was the case prior to the crisis, derivatives and high‑risk operations with “junk” bonds grow; budget problems — “fiscal cliff” in the US — and other problems worsen. All of the above forces the regulators to take unprecedented (in their scope and nature) steps. Will they be able to tackle the problems which emerge?

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