August 29, 2026
Education Reform
New Leadership in Education
How outside influence from higher education, new math, administrative hiring, middle schools, and changing reading programs began reshaping elementary education in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Education History
Why Arithmetic Made Algebra Easy, and New Math Didn't
When the President's Math Commission Report of 2008 cited "a lack of ease of operations" regarding algebra readiness, it was quietly circumventing a simpler word: arithmetic.
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Education History
Whatever Happened to Arithmetic?
An eight-year-old came home talking about zeros. That's a red flag for anyone who has followed new math and its hold on the elementary curriculum. Here's how arithmetic disappeared from American classrooms, and why it needs to come back.
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