Posted by: Dean Fink Posted on: May 18, 2001 at 12:22 PM Message: Do you have any evidence that your program enhances test scores? To what extent do the standardized tests attend to the important inquiry processes you describe? Yours is the first poster that I have read that talks about the difference between elementary and secondary. I suspect secondary teachers' reluctance to change is that they perceive that they are preparing kids for higher education and I suspect they merely replicate ( and I would say accurately) what they experienced in university. Maybe the place to start, at least for secondary schools, is with the university math departments. I also suspect that some elemantary teachers are preparing their kids for the high school they remember. Perhaps some kind of a network involving all three levels is required to focus on today and not yesterday. This may be part of the answer.

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