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Overarching Recommendations
Pages 2-4

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... Then, within the four specific areas under consideration by the Working Group, we provide recommendations, as requested, for the action strategy. Overarching Recommendations Construct and sustain a Federal effort that brings together, in a coherent framework for decision-making, the various National Science Foundation and U.S.
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... of interactive development involving test redesign and strategy adjustment, with ongoing monitoring anal oversight. An important first step in such a long-term plan is immediate Federal implementation of a process by which states and districts would be able to gather, along with student test data, information about the contexts in which students are learning mathematics, information about curriculum that is in place, information about the teachers' backgrounds and professional development activity, and information about classroom instructional practice and areas of content emphasis.
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... With the advent of the NCTM Standards, new state frameworks, and new state-level eighth grade assessments, as well newly developed instructional materials, the mathematical responsibilities of these teachers have increased significantly. The recommended curricular topics for the middle grades now include a much greater emphasis on patterns and functions, algebra, and areas of statistics, probability, geometry, and measurement (NCTM, ~ 9894.
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