The New York Times SchoolBook recently ran an an article from Peg Tyre, author of “The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve”.   Entitled Five Tips for Identifying a Good School, Tyre identifies five research-based tips for identifying what makes a “good” school. Here’s her response to the question: What [...]

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A recent article in the Columbus Dispatch reported that the Columbus (Ohio) School District is using a new K-2 math curriculum based on Singapore Math. Reporter Jennifer Smith Richards outlined some of the reasons for Singapore’s math success: Solving problems — and a deeper understanding of why the answer can be found with a certain [...]

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Test scores show momentum for charters The Washington Post 8/4/2011 The Bruce Monroe Elementary School in Washington DC struggled to implement Singapore math, but the school remained committed to the program. In a June 6 article in the Washington Post, the school’s instructional coach, Nuhad Jamal, referred to Singapore Math as “a strength of our [...]

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D.C.’s Bruce-Monroe school faces challenges as it tries Singapore math method The Washington Post 6/6/2011 If you’ve been wondering what the difficulties are when implementing Singapore math, look no further. This school in D.C. has them all; school closures, lack of enough professional development, mobile student and teacher population, and it’s a dual-language school. Standardized [...]

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Two videos were recently published by schools that adopted Singapore math programs last school year. Melrose Elementary School Mathematics/Science/Technology Magnet has seen impressive results with their new Singapore Math program, Primary Mathematics. Math Coach Lacy Endo-Peery announced: We had a 32% increase in students who were advanced or proficient in Math last year. Our students [...]

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