In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...
But if the heterogeneous class avoided those pitfalls, the new math placement would give hundreds of students with low test scores in seventh and ... had already taken algebra in eighth grade or ...
When principal Jess McMurray saw the math scores at Soda Springs High, he decided something had to be done. It’s not that the scores were especially terrible — they’re above the state average, after ...