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I have heard Everyday Math referred to as "Every Night Math." This is because every night parents are teaching their children the math they should be learning in school or driving them to tutoring centers to supplement their math education.

When asked if Connecting Math Concepts is hard:

"It's not really hard once I learn it."

Discovery Math and New New Math is like a mixed bag of curiosity learning.

If everyone spreads the word about verbal behavior then perhaps effective methods like those taught by Dr. Carbone will become the standard and not the exception.

Remember, never attribute to malice what can easily be explained by incompetence.

Outcomes observed for Principals and District Superintends who have faithfully implemented DI:

1. All the parents will love him because their kids are reading, but the scores won’t change, and he’ll get such bad press from the newspapers that the school board will fire him anyway.

2. All the parents will love him because their kids are reading, and the scores will go up, so he’ll be accused of cheating and the school board will fire him anyway.

3. All the parents will love him because their kids are reading, but the scores will go down because the Whole Language tests aren’t aligned with sane instructional sequences, so he’ll be accused of failing and the school board will fire him.

4. All the parents will love him because their kids are reading, so he’ll leave the district to start a charter school.

Change in behavior over time = Celeration

A good reason to use research based curriculum in the schools - this is not Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory.

In reality, excellence shall not fear observation.

An Oregon State University study of just a part of Kitzhaber's plan indicates $4.25 of future savings for every $1 invested (into special education).