Grizzled Veterans of America’s Math Wars
By Debra Saunders ยท Sunday, August 1, 2010
I am a veteran of the math wars. I was there in 1995 when the shiny new California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) test told graders to award a higher score to a student who incorrectly answered a math problem about planting trees — but wrote an enthusiastic essay — than to a student who got the answer right, but with no essay.
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