Portland Public Schools is trying to close the algebra access gap. Early evidence suggests it’s working

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...
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How One District Diversified Its Advanced Math Classes — Without the Controversy

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Eliminating advanced math ‘tracks’ often prompts outrage. Some districts buck the trend

Troy Superintendent Richard Machesky says that, after initial parent pushback, opposition to detracking of math classes in schools like Boulan Park, pictured here, has gone silent. Credit: Amanda J.
Oregonian

Portland Public Schools maps a 3rd way in the nationally charged debate over middle school algebra

How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...
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How one district has diversified its advanced math classes — without the controversy

Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...