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Monday, October 13, 2014

Standardized Mathematics Testing Success without Substandard Classes: Part One

Here is the link to my first of four NCTM Blogarithm posts....

http://www.nctm.org/Publications/Mathematics-Teaching-in-Middle-School/Blog/Standardized-Mathematics-Testing-Success-without-Substandard-Classes_-Part-1/

Dr. Clayton M. Edwards
Ed. D. Curriculum and Instruction (UNI)
Yager Exemplary Teaching Award 2014
Awarded Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation at the University of Northern Iowa 2014
MA Middle Level Mathematics (UNI)
Middle School Mathematics Instructor
Grundy Center Middle School
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