NYT: Why do Americans Stink at Math. A Rebuttal

I agree with the author's original thought, but I fault this article for merely reporting, without thinking 
or suggesting solutions. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html?_r=0

I haven't even finished the article, and I am already starting my rebuttal list!

1. Mathematics teach basic logic.
Logic is the underpinnings of all the math we teach. The procedural steps also have a logic-based 
component. They teach students to create use and analyze a complex problem and decide on a way
 to resolve the issue.

2. Parent outreach is currently insufficient to help explain and justify to parents why we are changing, 
how we are changing and what their new role is. (This is part of my role as a Title I Math teacher,  
and while I reach out and invite all parents in each week, the response is not going to 
'light the world on fire'. I need help. The best person for me to learn from is someone successfully 
doing it, but I don't know anyone who is.

3. Technology can help. I could "flip" my class and record videos for each day, so students can review,
 parents can learn, and my colleagues can constructively critique me and suggest techniques for the
 future.  (I take critism well.)

4. NCTM is trying! But even math teachers don't know about all the resources NCTM has.

5. These methods being used are exclusively U.S. cultural methods. I also know that India's methods, 
called Vedic Math, are 3,00 years old, super efficient and beautifully simplistic, and yet few people use 
them.

6. Teachers will default to the methods they were taught as children, and parents may be demanding 
them too, as well! Any teacher may think, "Well, that worked for me, so..." but often, teachers are in that
 10-20% who 'get it' without any additional help, while most people will 'miss the boat'.

7. Reteaching time is not built into the schedule, and with twenty plus students, it's easy to run out of 
time.My job is to help teachers and provide that reteaching time, but again, time restrains me, too when
 we are discussing 600+ students in the school.