[Maths-Education] Re: Attacks on Jo Boaler and mathematics education

[Jeanne Albert]

Can someone send the article around.
Thanks,
Jeanne Albert

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[mailto:maths-education-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
Drake
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:42 PM
To: Mathematics Education discussion forum
Subject: [Maths-Education] Re: Attacks on Jo Boaler and mathematics
education

Pete Write has written a helpful article in For the Learning of
Mathematics, 32, 2 called  The Math Wars: tensions in the development of
school mathematics curricula
http://flm-journal.org/index.php?do=details&lang=en&vol=32&num=2&pages=7-13

Cheers
Pat

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On 17/10/2012 23:58, "Lerman, Stephen" <lermans at lsbu.ac.uk> wrote:

>Dear colleagues,
>You may know that Jo Boaler's work in a Californian school, called
>Railside for anonymity, has been attacked by some very conservative
>mathematicians. Their attack is aimed at every progressive approach to
>teaching and learning mathematics but focused specifically at Jo's
>studies. They have also attacked her personally quite viciously, and have
>contravened ethical practices by providing information that can be used
>to identify the school and the students.
>Jo, and through her our research as a community and our desire to improve
>the teaching and learning of mathematics, needs defending.
>Please see her website http://www.stanford.edu/~joboaler/ for full
>details and register your support on facebook, twitter or other ways you
>may choose.
>Steve Lerman
>
>Professor Stephen Lerman
>Department of Education
>London South Bank University
>103 Borough Road
>LONDON SE1 0AA
>United Kingdom
>Tel: +44 (0)20 7815 7440
>Fax: +44 (0)20 7815 8160
>url: https://sites.google.com/site/lermansteve/home
>
>Professor Stephen Lerman
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