This is a good article in the Washington Post

When you start telling me that you have to print books with 10 different colors on every page, with charts and stories about the rain forest and what you are going to do at Giant today because we have to make everything relevant 100 percent of the time . . . I say, no, no," he said. "I think we are doing our students a disservice."

It is startling to many educators to find that a teacher so critical of modern methods -- particularly the anti-drill doctrines of the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics -- has become such a success at preparing students for Jefferson, one of the most up-to-date, technologically oriented high schools in the world. Williams says he is not the least bit surprised.

I know there are a lot of variables involved so 7th graders can achieve in advanced math, but I think this says more about the expert, dedicated, teacher than the curriculum.

"Good teaching comes in many forms."