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What Happens When Politics and Education Intersect?
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Common Core Standards
school vouchers
NCLB and STEM
Public discourse about education is not new. Sometimes it is well informed, sometimes not.
In the late nineteenth century, the Indiana legislature found itself debating mathematical legislation that none of them understood. This legislation would establish a new value for pi. The new pi would be taught in Indiana’s schools for free while everyone else would have to pay royalties to the author, a Hoosier. Their confusion in understanding the concept was justifiable.
Click here to read how the head of the Purdue University Mathematics Department stepped in and straightened them out.
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