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High-achieving Black, Latino and low-income students who pass algebra in the 8th grade — a feat that can set children up for success in college and beyond — still end up taking far fewer advanced high school math courses than their white, Asian and more affluent peers, new research shows. Outcomes are starkly different for […]
High schools are no longer steering everyone toward calculus, a course that is not universally available – nor pertinent to all professions.
High schools are no longer steering everyone toward calculus, a course that is not universally available – nor pertinent to all professions.
Twenty-one states across the country — Utah, Washington and Georgia among them — are part of a special initiative led by the Charles A. Dana Center in Austin to revamp their mathematics curriculum at the high school level to better reflect students’ interests. Some have modified graduation requirements or retooled stalwart courses — particularly Algebra […]