nyt: chinese and american learning of math and science or… how how policy documents legitimize regimes
http://www.prattsenate.org/nytimes_07_02_06.htm http://www.internationaled.org/mathsciencereport.htm http://www.pekingduck.org/archives/003837.php to the NYT articles and letters above…. I respond thusly: I tend to agree more with the Letters, than with the nyt article and even less so with the report. I think we have to be very careful about accounting for the cultural institutionalization of learning in China and the U.S. We […]
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