Des Moines Public Schools’ Central Academy has an 8th-grade math class using election methods to teach math modeling, and two ...
Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, ...
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Thrown into the deep end of algebra
In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...
Illinois education officials plan to launch a statewide initiative over the next several months aimed at boosting student ...
Grade-level students can also be harmed if teachers try to accommodate weaker students by making the material easier. But if the heterogeneous class avoided those pitfalls, the new math placement ...
Even a non-math, non-electoral policy wonk like me can understand the perils of a system that potentially disenfranchises large swaths of the population, writes Cloe Axelson.