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In the Battle over Early Algebra, Parents Are Winning

• gnicholas 3y ago
  > The San Francisco Unified School District said Friday that it would reverse its decade-old policy, a move that comes after a similar recent change by the school system in Cambridge, Mass., home to Harvard University. “When you watch how this policy plays out, it is actually crushing the hopes and dreams of real children in our city, every single year,” said Annesa Flentje, a parent of three and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who in March 2023 became a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to reverse the San Francisco school district’s policy. A study by Stanford University researchers released in March 2023 found that San Francisco’s policy largely failed in its equity goals, with the proportion of Black and Latino students enrolling in Advanced Placement math courses hardly moving. Sounds like a change for the better, based on solid evidence. Too bad they took a years-long detour to the detriment of many students.