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Race to Where?

By Matt, on August 9th, 2010%

Late last month there was apparently a bit of a ruckus over whether or not California should adopt new national education standards as part of a competition among the states dubbed “Race to the Top.”

Although Race to the Top (the brain child of education secretary Arne Duncan) hasn’t received much media attention, it was one of . . . → Read More: Race to Where?

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Math in the News(paper)

By Matt, on March 3rd, 2010%

Last year, Professor Steven Strogatz of Cornell University wrote a series of op-eds for the New York Times that discussed the presence of mathematics in unlikely places. I discussed one of these columns here.  Now, either those articles were well-received, or Professor Strogatz is well-connected, because this year he’s back in the Times with a . . . → Read More: Math in the News(paper)

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