American education reform: no long division?

nytimes.com — ?When my oldest child, an A-plus stellar student, was in sixth grade, I realized he had no idea, no idea at all, how to do long division,? Ms. Backman said, ?so I went to school and talked to the teacher, who said, ?We don?t teach long division; it stifles their creativity.? ? Nov 14, 2006 View in Crawl 4