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.
So what if there are gaps. If siblings who grow up in the same household can grow up to achieve vastly different things then why should we expect this amongst students. Such is life. Some students will do well in algebra and some won’t. I struggled to get a B in algebra and that was with a lot of late night studying with my father.
It took me 10 years after I left school to grasp algebra, and that was only after I learned it does in fact have functional applications
Who is this Al Jabber I keep hearin about.