General Mathematics Education:

• Boaler, Jo. "Open and Closed Mathematics Approaches: Student Experiences and Understandings." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 29 (January 1998): 41-62.
• Boaler, Jo. "Exploring Situated Insights into Research and Learning." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 31 (January 2000): 113-119.
• Grouws, Douglas A., editor. Handbook of Research on Teaching and Learning. New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992.
• Haberman, Martin. "The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching." Phi Delta Kappan, December 1991, p. 290-294. [pdf]
• Hiebert, James. "Relationships between Research and the NCTM Standards." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 30 (January 1999): 3-19.
• Johnson, Jerry. Teaching and Learning Mathematics: Using Research to Shift from the "Yesterday" Mind to the "Tomorrow" Mind. Olympia, WA: Resource Center, Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2000.
• National Commission of Excellence in Education. A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. An Agenda for Action: Recommendations for School Mathematics in the 1980s. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1980.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Assessment Standards for School Mathematics. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1995.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2000.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1991.
• National Research Council. Adding it Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000.
• National Research Council. A Challenge of Numbers: People in the Mathematical Sciences. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1990. 
• National Research Council, Mathematical Sciences Education Board. Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1989 (see the references section).
• National Research Council. How People Learn: Brain, Mind Experience, and School. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000.
• Robinson, E.E., M.F. Robinson, J.C. Maceli. "The Impact of Standards-based Instructional Materials in Mathematics in the Classroom." In Learning Mathematics for a New Century: 2000 Yearbook. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
• Schmidt, William H., Curtis C. McKnight, and S.A. Raisen. A Splintered Vision: An Investigation of U.S. Science and Mathematics Education. Boston, MA: Kluer Academic Publishers, 1996.
• Schoenfeld, Alan H. "When Good Teaching Leads to Bad Results: The Disasters of Well Taught Mathematics Classes." Educational Psychologist 23 (Spring 1998): 143-66.
• Seldon, Annie and John. "Should Mathematicians and Mathematics Educators be Listening to Cognitive Psychologists?" MAA Online. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, MAA No.2 (February 28, 1997).
• Stevenson, Harold W., and Stigler, James W. The Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
• Stigler, James W., and Hiebert, James. The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom. New York: The Free Press, 1999.
• "The Story of an Experiment"
  • Parts I-III, by L. P. Benezet
    Originally published in The Journal of the National Education Association, Vol. 24, No. 8, Nov.1935, pp. 241-244; Vol. 24, No. 9, Dec.1935, pp. 301-303; Vol. 25, No.1, Jan.1936, pp.7-8.
  • Part IV, by Andrew M. Gleason, Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, Harvard University
    

Implementation:

• Charting a New Course: A Study of the Adoption and Implementation of Standards-Based Mathematics Curricula in Eight Minnesota School Districts (SciMathMN, Fall 2001)
• Curriculum Summaries. Newton, MA: K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Center, June 2000 (Fourth Edition).
• Goldsmith, Lynn T., Mark, June, and Kantrov, Ilene. Choosing a Standards-Based Mathematics Curriculum. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann Publishing, 2000.

• M. Harwell, T. Post, Y. Maeda, J. Davis, A. Cutler, E. Andersen, and J. Kahan. "Standards-based Mathematics Curricula and Secondary Students' Performance on Standardized Achievement Tests." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 38:1 (January 2007): 71-101.
• Senk, Sharon L. and Thompson, Denisse R., eds. Standards-based School Mathematics Curricula: What Are They? What do Students Learn? Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.