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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I very much doubt that any school, public or private or other, anywhere in the US does an effective job of teaching math.  The PISA results indicate that the US underperforms other advanced economies systematically and nationwide.

No doubt, there exist individual math teachers (“Stand and Deliver”) in the USA who are very good, but these are few and far between.  They exist despite our educational system and our system of Teacher’s Colleges, not because we have good systems.

Locally, the Kumon center in N Arlington and S McLean are used by students from the name-brand private schools, the parochial/religious schools, and (gasp) APS.  Kumon, Mathnasium, RSM, and AoPS would not be thriving businesses in NoVA if our schools were systematically good at teaching math.  A colleague who went to TJ observed that all the top math students at TJ supplemented and reinforced outside school all along the way.  Sometimes that was with a parent, sometimes with a tutor, and sometimes at a math supplement center.[/quote]

100% agree with this.[/quote]

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