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Rejoinder to the Critiques of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel Final Report

CAMILLA PERSSON BENBOW served as vice chair of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. She is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, Peabody No. 329, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203-5721; camilla.benbow{at}vanderbilt.edu. She co-directs the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, a longitudinal study examining the developmental trajectories of more than 5,000 individuals throughout the life span

Larry R. Faulkner

LARRY R. FAULKNER served as chair of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. He is the president emeritus of the University of Texas at Austin and president of the Houston Endowment, 600 Travis, Suite 6400, Houston, TX 77002-3000; LFaulkner{at}houstonendowment.org.

The authors respond to comments and criticisms made of Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2008). Given the requirements of the president’s executive order, constraints of time, and the need to make recommendations generalizable to national policy, the Panel adopted appropriately high evidentiary standards for its recommendations. The authors also respond to criticisms voiced on Panel findings regarding mathematics curricula, instructional practices, learning processes, teachers and teacher education, and assessment. While scholars should continue to develop promising programs of research, experimental or otherwise, the report offers a solid basis for improving math achievement.

Key Words: assessment • curricula • education policy • instruction • learning • mathematics education • National Mathematics Advisory Panel • research methodology • standards of evidence • teacher education • teachers

Educational Researcher, Vol. 37, No. 9, 645-648 (2008)
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X08329195


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