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Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools

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How Schools Can Diversify Math Course-Taking

Students can’t succeed in math if they’re never exposed to it. And many students never get access to advanced—or even some foundational—math in high school. New federal civil rights data and an ...
Education Week

How Two Schools Are Rethinking Math for English Learners

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s ...
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Students being placed into advanced math classes based off standardized test scores, not grades

DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...
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Learning Advanced Math Can Help Your Business Scale

Whether you like it or not, math will almost always come into business. Whether it’s financial math to figure out how your company is going to fare in the coming quarter, tax math, cost-benefit ...
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It’s Time To Change The Math Calculus: How The U.S. Can Finally Get Math Education Right

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...
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One university boosted gender diversity in advanced math by more than 30% in five years—here's how

As the artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing industries explode, trained STEM professionals are in high demand. Mathematics is foundational to these fields. Subscribe to our newsletter ...
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Which students get into advanced math? Texas is using test scores to limit bias

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Los Angeles Times

Here’s how California’s bold plan to change math instruction could help or hurt students

California is preparing to overhaul the way math is taught to 6 million kindergarten through 12th graders, the first major changes since 2013. Here are essential elements of the draft Mathematics ...
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In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Who Are Gifted at Math

California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in accelerated classes that study advanced concepts like ...
Los Angeles Times

California’s math education needs an update, but not the one proposed

California students’ math scores have lagged for years and only gotten worse during the pandemic. The California State Board of Education has the job of adopting K-12 curriculum frameworks in ...
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Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools: Report of the Content Panel for Mathematics

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