U.S. students don’t do well in math, and for a long time there was no data to prove it. Dr. VanDerHeyden explains what changed in 2001. Accountability testing gave every school data, and the results were abysmal. They matched what NAEP, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, had already shown: 20 years of flat, stagnant growth in math. She explains why that matters, because math proficiency is one of the clearest signs of how students will do later on.
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