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 ...
The gymnasium at West Morgan Middle School was full of activity on Thursday as 300 students from five middle schools in the Morgan County school district hammered away at algebra and solved ...
The pressure to reach Calculus by a student’s senior year of high school often translates into pressure to take Algebra I, the first course in a five-course sequence, by eighth grade. Algebra I (or ...