San Francisco middle schools will teach Algebra I again this fall — though concerns about implementation continue amid a shortage of qualified teachers.
The 6-1 vote by the San Francisco Unified School District board Tuesday followed a decadelong battle over eighth graders' access to higher-level math courses and a larger debate over academic opportunity and equity in math performance.
Stanford researchers found last year that large racial and ethnic gaps in advanced math enrollment persisted even after the policy change.
It's not hyperbolic though. We've got more than a half-century of demoralizing rhetoric aimed at black people (white people too, but from a different angle) about how they're being held down and that racism is hidden everywhere. Of course they're going to have (on average) a massive inferiority complex.