The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) of the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences has issued a report on the Connected Mathematics Project (CMP), the constructivist mathematics curriculum currently in use in grades 6-8 in SCASD. Seventy-nine studies of CMP were considered, but only one of these studies was found to meet the rigorous evidence standards of the WWC. This was a 2000 study of 12,000 students in grades 6-8 in Texas. The conclusion from the report was:
Based on the one study, the WWC found no discernible effects on math achievement.
