A step down: Federal education standards

By Ze’ev Wurman and Sandra Stotsky | Saturday, March 13, 2010 | The Boston Globe

“…The latest draft of national English language arts and math standards looks very different. The prestigious National Math Advisory Panel identified algebra as the key to higher-level math study and recommended that more students should be ready to enroll in Algebra I by eighth grade. But it is unlikely that these standards could even support the teaching of such a course in ninth grade….”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/03/13/a_step_down_federal_education_standards?mode=PF

 

 

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