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California Dreaming: Reforming Mathematics Education

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Author(s): Suzanne M. Wilson
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2003

Language: English
Pages: 320
City: New Haven

CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 15
1 Curriculum Wars......Page 18
2 "Ours Is Not to Reason Why. Just Invert and Multiply”: School Mathematics and Its Critics......Page 23
3 Capturing Professional Consensus: The California State Department, 1983–1990......Page 45
4 Earlier Reforms and Their Legacies......Page 80
5 Networks and Their Leaders: Broadcasting and Shaping Reform......Page 94
6 Riding the Tiger: The California State Department, 1990–1992......Page 130
7 The Tide Turns: 1993–1995......Page 149
8 Dueling Standards......Page 183
9 Parsnips and Orchids Side by Side: A View from the Classroom......Page 221
10 Toward a Civil, Constructive Discourse......Page 233
Methodological Appendix: “This Frightful Toil”......Page 248
Timeline......Page 272
NOTES......Page 276
INDEX......Page 309