Port, Otis. "Why Johnny May Learn to Add." - Brief Article

Port, Otis. "Why Johnny May Learn to Add." Business Week, December 13, 1999, pp. 108-9, 112, 114. Four years ago in the Chicago suburbs, the First in the World Consortium (FiW) was founded. Its goal was to teach what is called "discovery learning, hands-on education, or inquiry-based teaching" to America's students in hopes of competing with other students around the world in math and science.

The results for this type of teaching are in and are surprising many people, including FiW's founders. When the FiW students took several math and science tests, also given to students around the world, they scored among the top five countries across the board. Paul Kimmelman, head of FiW, is shocked at the results. "If you had said four years ago that we could match the Asian performance, I'd have said 'no way'."

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