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What San Francisco's Algebra Wars Tell Us About CA's New Math Framework

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The San Francisco 2014 Policy That Changed the Sequencing of Math Courses for Students

400 San Francisco rising high school sophomores spent six weeks of their summer taking a crash course on geometry. The reason they took it was for many of them, that means that they get on track to take calculus by the time they're a senior. Jill Tucker: This very controversial policy basically moved algebra one into ninth grade for all students.

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