Category: Current Topics

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On this page below, you will find article directories of (a) the most important articles on this site, (b) the most recent articles in each topic, and (c) the Top 10 most read articles on this blog.  (Note – As of late May 2025, “Pros and Cons of the CPM Math Textbook Series” has been viewed almost 30,000 times by readers from across the U.S. and around the world, reflecting CPM’s controversial reception by parents and students.)

Following the directory listings on this web page, all blog articles are displayed in reverse chronological order.

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Most Important Articles for new Visitors to this Blog

1. Raising our Children – American Society Reflects our Values and Choices
2. SMUHSD Class Sign-up Time – Please Read This First!
3. It’s AP ex(sc)am time again!
4. Never Believe Educational Experts (or Me)!
5. Reducing the Achievement Gap
6. “Mutual Assured Destruction”
7. My SMUHSD Board Report on NGSS – A Lot of People of Good Will Trying to Deal with a Tough Problem
8. Update After 7 Years: Finally an NGSS-aligned Textbook
9. Pros and Cons of the CPM Math Textbook Series
10. Info from UC Berkeley confirms why students should not skip from Precalculus to Calculus BC
11. Why Can’t We Teach Mathematics Properly?
12. A Hole in the Aragon Math Curriculum
13. How Students are “Accelerating” in Math at Aragon
14. How to Interest Kids in Science, Engineering, and Math
15. How to Get in to Harvard

Recent Topics

(Click on any topic title below for all articles in that category in reverse chronological order – only the most recent or important articles are listed below)

Current Topics

1. Update After 7 Years: Finally an NGSS-aligned Textbook
2. “Thank You for Being Late”

Education News

1. Update After 7 Years: Finally an NGSS-aligned Textbook
2. New Developments in the Data Science Math Controversy
3. Reducing the Achievement Gap
4. The Battle Over the California Math Framework Revision
5. ALERT – “Draft California Mathematics Framework Shortchanges STEM”
6. The Local Math Wars Begin *Again* – Part 2
7. The Local Math Wars Begin *Again*

Issues in Teaching Mathematics     

1. New Developments in the Data Science Math Controversy
2. Reducing the Achievement Gap
3. The Battle Over the California Math Framework Revision
4. ALERT – “Draft California Mathematics Framework Shortchanges STEM”
5. The Local Math Wars Begin *Again* – Part 2
6. The Local Math Wars Begin *Again*
7. A Result to Inspire Women in Mathematics!
8. Guest Article: Why I Oppose the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
9. Why a “Sage on the Stage” in a Classroom is not always a Bad Thing
10. Senior Dilemma: What to Take – AP Statistics or Calculus BC?
11. Aragon Accelerated Math Class Drop Rate Controversy Has Been Resolved
12. Alarmingly High Drop Rate for Aragon’s Accelerated Math Classes??
13. How Students are “Accelerating” in Math at Aragon
14. STEM Class Issues from the 2017-2018 Aragon School Year: Part 2 – AP Statistics
15. STEM Class Issues from the 2017-2018 Aragon School Year: Part 1 – Precalculus (with an aside on Multivariable Calculus)
16. Pros and Cons of the CPM Math Textbook Series
17. Why is 10^0 = 1 ???
18. Why Can’t We Teach Mathematics Properly?

Next Generation Science Standards

1. NGSS Physics and Biology Textbook Adoption: Follow-up from the 5/22/25 Board Meeting
2. Update After 7 Years: Finally an NGSS-aligned Textbook
3. My SMUHSD Board Report on NGSS – A Lot of People of Good Will Trying to Deal with a Tough Problem
4. A Great Conversation at the SMUHSD Board Meeting Regarding NGSS
5. SMUHSD Board of Trustees Science Curriculum Agenda Item on Thursday, March 7th
6. NGSS Impact on the 2018 SMUHSD AP Physics 1 Scores?
7. Rewriting Your Child’s Science Curriculum – the Bold NGSS Experiment
8. Update on the NGSS impact on the Local Physics Curriculum
9. The Fine Art of Delay – An Open Letter to the SMUHSD Board
10. My Speech to the SMUHSD Board on NGSS
11. Attention SMUHSD Parents! State Mandated Testing Negatively Impacts Aragon’s Physics Program

AP Class Crisis

1. Help for AP Physics Students during the Pandemic
2. UPDATE on AP Exam Uploading Issues
3. AP Exam takers lost network connectivity in some cases !!!
4. SMUHSD Class Sign-up Time – Please Read This First!
5. Prepared?
6. Raising our Children – American Society Reflects our Values and Choices
7. 2019-2020 High School Class Sign-up Time – Please Read This Article First!
8. Senior Dilemma: What to Take – AP Statistics or Calculus BC?

College Admissions

1. How to get in to Harvard
2. How the College Admissions Scandal was Uncovered
3. SAT Test Prep Recommendations

Top Ten Most Read Articles

1. Pros and Cons of the CPM Math Textbook Series
2. Senior Dilemma: What to Take – AP Statistics or Calculus BC?
3. Guest Article: Why I Oppose the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
4. Info from UC Berkeley confirms why students should not skip from Precalculus to Calculus BC
5. It’s AP ex(sc)am time again!
6. The Battle Over the California Math Framework Revision
7. STEM Class Issues from the 2017-2018 Aragon School Year: Part 2 – AP Statistics
8. SMUHSD Debating a Change to a Quarter System?
9. The SMUHSD “Remote Learning” Problems of Spring 2020 are NOT Indicative of the Future
10. Critical Warnings re AP Classes

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