Making It Happen: Common Core Standards is a new publication from NCTM that demonstrates how NCTM work on Standards can support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Click for order information — available at a reduced price to NCTM members. (I am one of the authors.)
www.MathematicallySane.com has updated both its design and content. This site provides information about mathematics education reform; I serve as the webmaster.
The first set of tasks in the NCTM High School Mathematics Task Library have been released. See www.nctm.org/hsfocus. Related applets can be found at www.mathrsm.net.
The Common Core State Standards, Appendix A, which gives pathways to complete the high school standards, is now available online. (I served on the writing group for this document.)
The Alabama Reading Initiative (ARI) is a statewide K-12 initiative managed by the Alabama Department of Education. The goal of ARI is to significantly improve reading instruction and ultimately achieve 100% literacy among public school students. Since its introduction in the mid 1990s, nearly every school in the state has participated. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on professional development, reading coaches, and other aspects of the program.
Indeed, reading has increasingly become the primary focus of instruction in elementary classrooms across the state, with many elementary schools allotting three or more hours for reading instruction. Other important areas, such as mathematics, science, and social studies have been dramatically deemphasized in contrast.
So what do we have to show for all this time and money? Read the rest of this entry »
A discussion of Focus in High School Mathematics, including a few quotes from me, are including in a new article, Number Wars, in the Scientific American. As the title suggests, this is another “Math Wars” piece.
“Reasoning and Sense Making,” co-written by myself and Lisa Kasmer, appears in the December issue of Teaching Children Mathematics. The article describes the implications of the Focus in High School Mathematics document for the elementary grades. Please click here to see corrected figures 3 and 4.
Article here, including quotes from yours truly. 
Education Week, “American education’s newspaper of record,” has published an article on Focus in High School Mathematics, for which I was the lead author. Click here to see the article, which includes several quotes from me…
An article I wrote just appeared in the October 2009 issue of the Mathematics Teacher — “The NCTM High School Curriculum Project: Why It Matters to You” <- Link here