California will officially adopt a new "equity" and "social justice" based mathematics framework for its K-12 schools after a vote from the State Board of Education on Wednesday. After multiple ...

California is developing a new framework to guide math instruction K-12 classrooms. Despite recent major reforms in the way math is taught in California, fewer than half of the state’s students meet ...

California’s twice-revised framework for K-12 math instruction is on pause, likely for months, as the California Department of Education considers hundreds of line-by-line changes and lengthy ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters. The California Department of Education on Monday published its second crack at a new Mathematics Framework, a set of guidelines for ...

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Re “California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash” (front page, Nov. 5): De-emphasizing math, including calculus, in favor of teaching social justice is a false dichotomy. What I ...

The California Mathematics Framework (C.M.F.) is an arguably obscure but extremely consequential document informing the educations of millions of children, from transitional kindergarten to twelfth ...

A California-based group is sounding the alarm as the state education department considers implementing a framework that promotes controversial ideas about race and mathematics. The "Pathway to ...

Almost everything seems polarizing nowadays, but math education stands out as one of those rare nonpolitical topics on which everyone seems to have a strong opinion. Those of us who went to school in ...

Contrary to the ill-informed criticisms that are circulating, a new mathematics proposal for California schools would not take the rigor — or the emphasis on finding correct answers — out of math. It ...

The spotlight is once again on the State of California and its proposed new mathematics framework for grades K-12. The proposed framework would "de-mathematize math" and encourage the use of a "trauma ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California student performance in math and reading has stagnated while wide achievement gaps for black, Hispanic and low-income students persist, according to results released ...