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Of all the insane, repressive and straight-up authoritarian systems in the United States today, you picked... A failed pilot for middle-school algebra in SF?
by vkou 4y ago
Of all the insane, repressive and straight-up authoritarian systems in the United States today, you picked... A failed pilot for middle-school algebra in SF?
- cscurmudgeon 4y agoIt wasn't just a failed pilot: It was a pilot which prevented advanced students from taking algebra. Lines up with Harrison Bergeron perfectly. And on top of it they claimed it was a success as failure rates went down. The failure rate went down because nobody was being tested. https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/algebra-for-none-fails-in-san-francisco https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/algebra-for-none-fails-in-... > The district had bragged that algebra failure rates had dropped. Families for San Francisco, a parent group, analyzed the data: Failure rates dropped after the district dropped the end-of-course exam.