The Department of Education plans to cut the number of core subjects in the senior high school curriculum from the current 15 to just "five or six." ...
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 ...
But if the heterogeneous class avoided those pitfalls, the new math placement would give hundreds of students with low test scores in seventh ... grade algebra or a more advanced class, except for ...
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.