Reforming the Third R: Changing the school mathematics curriculum - An introduction

This special issue of the American Journal of Education, "Reforming the Third R," arose from the feeling that readers of this journal, who tend to be interested in ideas, issues, research, and practice in education broadly conceived, might benefit from a more detailed look at one particular area, the changing mathematics curriculum. Its goal is to provide to the education scholar community a picture of the motivations for, theories behind, work of, results from, and implications of the current wave of curriculum reform in mathematics education.