#880: Everything wrong with California’s math framework, with Tom Loveless

<p>On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Tom Loveless, a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, joins Mike to discuss the problematic practices and research in California’s new mathematics framework. Then, on Research minutes, Amber discusses a depressing new report that finds a degradation in instructional quality that’s making it difficult to recover pandemic-era learning loss.</p><p><b>Recommended content:</b></p><ul><li> “California’s new math framework doesn’t add up” —<a href='https://www.educationnext.org/californias-new-math-framework-doesnt-add-up/'>Tom Loveless</a></li><li> “California adopts controversial new math framework. Here’s what’s in it.” —<a href='https://www.educationnext.org/californias-new-math-framework-doesnt-add-up/'>Education Week</a></li><li>Lydia Rainey, Paul Hill, and Robin Lake, “<a href='https://crpe.org/pandemic-teaching-recovery-july-2023/'>Teach recovery? Three years in, school system leaders report that the pandemic weakened instruction</a>,” Center for Reinventing Public Education (July 2023).</li></ul><p><b>Feedback Welcome:</b></p><p>Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Daniel Buck at <a href='mailto:dbuck@fordhaminstitute.org'>dbuck@fordhaminstitute.org</a>.</p>