San Francisco may reverse math policy designed to improve equity after research showed it didn’t work

I’ve written about this topic several times but the story continues to plod along through the San Francisco bureaucracy. Back in 2014 the city adopted a new and supposedly more equitable approach to math. The problem was that minority students were lagging white (and Asian) students in math. Prior to 2014 students were sent on one of two tracks. And advanced math track had students taking Algebra I in 8th grade while a slower track had other students waiting until the freshman year of high school to take that class. It was a slight difference but it meant that some kids were getting to Calculus in their senior year, giving them a leg up when applying to college. That was deemed inequitable.Read More