Documents from June

For those who may not know, the DC Public School Board, apparently with little notice, held a meeting on June 15, 2005 at which they adopted various texts to be used in elementary and middle schools in math, English, and social studies. Among the math texts adopted were Everyday Mathematics, Math Trailblazers, Growing with Math for elementary schools, and Connected Math for middle schools (though they also adopted Pearson Prentice Hall Middle School Math which is not great but not disastrous).

A bunch of us wrote testimony to the hearing to no avail. At the Board meeting, Dr. Janey, superintendent, was reported to have remarked on the receipt of the various emails protesting adoption of EM and other texts, characterizing them as "short on research and long on opinion". These emails included protests from Ralph Raimi, math professor emeritus at U of Rochester and Bas Braams, a physicist and chemist and visiting professor at Emory. I have requested information on the decision in a FOIA letter to DC Public Schools (DCPS).

Here are links to the various documents:

FOIA letter: http://www.nychold.com/let-garelick-050621.html Raimi: http://www.nychold.com/let-raimi-050615.html Budd: http://www.nychold.com/let-budd-050615.html Hlasnik: http://www.nychold.com/let-hlasnik-050615.html Garelick: http://www.nychold.com/let-garelick-050615.html Garelick follow up: http://www.nychold.com/let-garelick-050617.html Braams: http://www.nychold.com/let-braams-050615.html

I will keep you posted of developments in this space.

-- BarryGarelick - 27 Jun 2005

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