The state's
fourth grade math standards wouldn't have met the standards set by Singapore and the six other top - performing nations in that
subject, according to the American Institutes for
Research's own analysis
of American curricula standards.
In his office on the
fourth floor
of the Institute's Laboratory
of Hydraulics, Hydrology, and Glaciology, Aellen tugged at the woolly gray beard that framed his face as he recalled watching the
subject of a lifetime
of research melt away.
The present authors have all been
subject to such attacks, whose similarity is notable because the authors»
research spans a broad range
of topics and disciplines: The first author has investigated the psychological variables underlying the acceptance or rejection
of scientific findings; the second author is a paleoclimatologist who has shown that current global temperatures are likely unprecedented during the last 1,000 years or more; the third and
fourth authors are public - health researchers who have investigated the attitudes
of teenagers and young adults towards smoking and evaluated a range
of tobacco control interventions; and the fifth author has established that human memory is not only fallible but
subject to very large and systematic distortions.