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 ...
The experiment also meant that average, grade-level students were learning alongside peers who lacked foundational math skills. It was risky. Students sometimes end up with lower math scores when they ...
To make up for the vacancies, Bessie Rhodes’ Principal Charlise Berkel is teaching seventh and eighth grade Math and Science, Assistant Principal Sarah Antrim-Graf is teaching seventh and eighth grade ...