the mid-1970s, new math was dead.
If the space race hadn't pushed new math along so quickly, Miller writes, it might have been a success. Instead, "its most lasting impact might be that of a cau- tionary tale." Today's curriculum reform- ers, he concludes, would do well to work "from the teachers up, not from the uni- versities down."
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