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 ...

In between the bottom students and the regular Algebra 1 students, there was a middle group of students ... Victoria Dye, Sequoia Union’s director of professional development and curriculum, told me ...

The 1:1 ratio results from the way the X and Y chromosomes are doled out in sperm and eggs. We know that boys and girls are produced in much the same frequency. But how – and why – is this 1:1 ...

When students take Algebra 1 matters. If high schoolers don’t pass ... but also encouraged teachers to use a new curriculum, and worked with teachers who volunteered specifically for this ...