An Overdue Divorce

In his opinion piece on EdNext, An Overdue Divorce, New Classrooms CEO Joel Rose advocates for the divorce of a very long-term marriage – the marriage between Math and grade-level instruction.

Ever since Massachusetts set up the nation’s first system of public schools, math education has been inextricably tied to what students should know based on their date of birth: 3rd graders are taught multiplication and division, 5th graders are taught to coordinate planes, 8th graders are taught to graph linear equations, and so forth.

But this marriage has always had an inherent conflict at its root. 

Read more from An Overdue Divorce to explore what it will take to dissolve the marriage and finally end this conflict.