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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the paper that mathematicians critiquing  Railside wrote:
https://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Articles/v8n1.pdf[/quote]
Interesting read. Didn't know that the VDOE crap had already been disproven 15 years ago.

When thinking about the notion of "depth" and "rigor" that the proponents of VMPI put forth it helps to read the assessment of the post tests by the authors in the appendices.

Remember that VMPI accuses traditional math of being "shallow" and "wide" - in reality, it turned out that the test used by the Railside study was 3 grade level behind, testing 6th grade knowledge which the authors call "pretend algebra."

The conclusion is that the Math standards in place at the time were in fact deep but proponents of "heterogeneous classrooms" intentionally (the authors call it "disingenously") made them shallow to show bogus data. When the student cohort was asked to do deep mathematics, it failed. (Not a single Railside student took AP Calculus.)[/quote]

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