In late April 2021, various right-leaning news outlets ran inaccurate headlines stating that the state of Virginia would eliminate accelerated math courses for all students in grades below 11th, ...
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – Concerned parents and students voiced strong opposition during the Board of Education meeting Tuesday, May 27 to an administrative proposal that would reduce the Egg Harbor ...
When gifted intervention specialist Amy Alexander prompts her Cherokee Elementary students to select an item from anywhere in the classroom, the kids spring to action. They search high and low, eager ...
The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is attempting to walk back its equity-focuses math program in a way that conflicts with previous statements it has made and materials it has promoted on ...
Starting last fall, the Rancho Santa Fe School District offered its middle school students a new honors and accelerated math pathway, providing more rigor to the academic program to give ...
The Virginia Mathematics Pathways Initiative (VMPI), an equity-focused educational program that would have eliminated all accelerated math courses before 11th grade, is no longer. The initiative was ...
A new accelerated learning curriculum improved middle school math outcomes last year, but racial disparities in achievement persist, according to a Monday District 65 school board report. Since 2021, ...
I read with interest Julia Silverman’s story about Portland Public Schools’ plans to eliminate accelerated math from middle school, (”Portland Public Schools slows efforts to end early algebra for ...
Our country has realized the vital importance of STEM ­– science, technology, engineering and math ­– education to our continued success. The basis of STEM knowledge is math. It was thus jarring to ...