Political Quotes

“I want to bring this back home. There is a woman who teaches at Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ, and in Tempe, AZ, who is a scholar herself and quite an expert in education. Her name is Marianne Jennings. She has written a nationally syndicated column on this issue. It turns out that 1 day her eldest daughter was doing some homework in her bedroom, and Marianne walked in and interrupted the child as she was doing the homework. She looked down, and what the child was doing was using a calculator to calculate what 10 percent of 470 was. Mrs. Jennings looked at that and said, what are you doing? And she discovered that her daughter needed a calculator to calculate 10 percent of 470, and needed a calculator to calculate what 25 percent of a fairly simple number was, and did not fully understand that 25 percent equaled one-quarter. She became enraged, and started to get involved in this issue, and in her daughter's education. She discovered that what was happening was that her daughter was being taught whole math or new, new math.”