Last week the Washington Post ran a story on the a topic I’ve blogged on before: the uneasiness many parents are feeling about willy-nilly math acceleration in MCPS. You can read the story, “Accelerated Math Adds Up to a Division over Merits,” (yuk, yuk) here. While parents support rigor and the opportunity for acceleration, many [...]
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Just Saying No–to Accelerated Math
Posted in In the News, School, tagged math, MCPS, placement, testing on June 10, 2008 | 15 Comments »
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