On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Tom Loveless, a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, joins Mike to discuss the problematic practices and research in California’s new mathematics framework. Then, on Research minutes, Amber discusses a depressing new report that finds a degradation in instructional quality that’s making it difficult to recover pandemic-era learning loss. Recommended content:  “California’s new math framework doesn’t add up” —Tom Loveless “California adopts controversial new math framework. Here’s what’s in it.” —Education WeekLydia Rainey, Paul Hill, and Robin Lake, “Teach recovery? Three years in, school system leaders report that the pandemic weakened instruction,” Center for Reinventing Public Education (July 2023).Feedback Welcome: Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Daniel Buck at [email protected].