1st Edition
Math Education for America? Policy Networks, Big Business, and Pedagogy Wars
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introducing Math Education for America and its Historical Context
2. Social Network Analysis and National Math Education
3. Human Capital: Math Education for America’s Purpose
4. Pedagogy Wars and Human Capital
5. The Content Knowledge Deficits of Math Teachers
6. Achieving Efficiency? The Testing Industry in Math Policy
7. The Failure of Math Education for America
Index
Biography
Mark Wolfmeyer, Assistant Professor, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA
“… An extremely important book. The extensive network analysis linking the math pedagogies to particular institutional interests is valuable for understanding the complicated picture of who supports particular policy movements and why.”
Kenneth Saltman, DePaul University, USA
"Wolfmeyer takes on the tasks of identifying who is behind the move toward the nationalization of mathematics education as well as making transparent their vision of mathematics for the citizens of the United States. He argues that math-ematics education is being skewed toward the interests of corporations by corpo-rate proxies and academics. Wolfmeyer shows the intermingling of the corporate representatives, academics, and government agencies behind the nationalization of mathematics education through a critical analysis of the policy networks, or social network analysis (SNA)."
Jeff Barger, NSTA Recommends
