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Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...
More California community college students entering, passing transfer-level math and English as result of landmark law Analysis examines early effect of AB 705.
Teaching Mathematics in California California poorly trains and supports teaching math, report concludes Teacher apprentice Ja'net Williams helps with a math lesson in a first grade class at Delta ...
AB 1705 would force California Community Colleges to enroll most students into transfer-level math and English classes, and cut enrollment in remedial classes.
Despite a 2017 law meant to eliminate lower-level math and English classes, many community colleges are resisting the change.
Related: At least one in five introductory math courses is remedial at 69 California community colleges, according to the California Acceleration Project, a faculty group supporting a bill to ...
As if California schools were not facing enough political battles, now even math instruction has become part of the raging ideological debate. A proposal to change the math framework for the state ...
Math is getting a major makeover. By fall, traditional textbooks mostly will be tossed aside in California classrooms. What's taught in each grade will get shuffled around and, often, merged ...
The revised draft of the state’s proposed math framework, which became embroiled in controversy last year, insists students can reach high-level math classes under its recommendations.
In the push to help more students thrive in STEM, California is working to change the way its schools teach math. But the suggested new framework has sparked widespread criticism.