Our own Andy Thomas, BP Parent and our representative to the Ann Arbor PTO Council, has been known as a skeptic about Everyday Math (EDM), our district’s mathematics curriculum. Heeding AAPS Superintendent Todd Roberts’ call for curriculum decisions to be made based on real data, Thomas decided to analyze the effects of the EDM program on math proficiency. His findings surprised him, and may surprise you.

Among his key findings:

• Michigan districts that use EDM have higher math proficiency rates than those which do not

Now that our Spanish language program has gotten off the ground, it might be good to discuss how it has been working, what we might do with it next year, and what the long run vision might be.