$83 million

from Saxon Math Warrior:

It was one thing for John Saxon to take on the mathematics education establishment. It was another for him to take on a special interest group whose followers were bankrolled by the federal government. With $83 million in federal tax dollars being pumped into the math education reformists’ camps during the 1990’s, any entrepreneur not in the chosen circle, who opposed reform math methods, and who was publishing his own math textbooks would have to battle more than their high-dollar funding. He would have to challenge the political ideology that guided all their decisions regarding America’s math program.

Saxon Math Warrior

from Education News:

John Saxon was hated by the math education establishment from the time he published his first algebra book in 1981. He still is, 14 years after his death in 1996. A West Point graduate with three engineering degrees, he declared war on those he blamed for creating the “disaster in American math education.” He insisted that math leaders had overseen this debacle and there was no personal accountability being demanded for the results of their radical ideology.

In John Saxon’s Story, a genius of common sense in math education, readers learn about his battles, his strong and colorful personality, and how his historically-based traditional math program made him, much to his surprise, a multimillionaire. This was in spite of high-powered and politically-connected math leaders’ efforts to destroy him.

The author, Nakonia (Niki) Hayes, is a retired math teacher and principal who used the Saxon program. She says she wrote the biography because John Saxon made a valuable and positive impact on thousands of American children. Go to Saxon Math Warrior for more information about how to order this original biography.

wow!

MSMI2010 was amazing.

Amazing!

Still collecting my thoughts - will post - but in the meantime, Niki Hayes' John Saxon bio is out!
My copy arrived in the mail last week.