NY WANTS TO REFORM MATH INSTRUCTION, EXPERTS DISAGREE ON HOW

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NY Wants to Reform Math Instruction. Experts Disagree on How.

They buried the lede— until we fix teachers colleges, the focus won’t be on students:

“We’re not an evidence-based profession traditionally, we’re more of an ideology-based, philosophy-based profession, and that works to some degree, but it’s not working for most of our kids,” Gaffney said. “So we need to move away from that towards the evidence.” 

READ MORE AT https://nysfocus.com/2026/06/25/new-york-back-to-basics-math-curriculum-debate