Straight Up Conversation: Math Scholar Hung-Hsi Wu on the Common Core :: Frederick M. Hess

Straight Up Conversation: Math Scholar Hung-Hsi Wu on the Common Core :: Frederick M. Hess:

Straight Up Conversation: Math Scholar Hung-Hsi Wu on the Common Core

by Frederick M. Hess • Oct 5, 2011 at 8:14 am
Cross-posted from Education Week

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A few weeks back, I penned a post about the lack of response we'd received regarding our in-the-worksEducation Next forum on the Common Core math standards. In response, I heard from a number of individuals who offered to take up the challenge. One was Hung-Hsi Wu, professor emeritus in mathematics from UC-Berkeley, who has just penned the cover story on this topic for AFT's magazine American Educator. Dr. Wu, who started teaching at Berkeley in 1973, has been actively involved in math education for the past two decades, helping write California's 1999 Mathematics Framework and California's Standards Tests. He was also a member of NAEP's Mathematics Steering Committee, 2000-2001, that contributed to the revision of the NAEP Framework.

I appreciated Dr. Wu's offer to share his take and was impressed by his willingness to talk frankly about the