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Jobs for the Future:
One of the largest and most persistent inequities in the modern American education system is the gap in math achievement along income and race lines.
Yet some secondary schools are demonstrating their capacity to "beat the odds" and produce consistently strong math performance with students who likely would fail in traditional settings.
This paper, prepared for the Carnegie-IAS Commission on Mathematics and Science Education, highlights several obstacles to raising math achievement that deserve more attention, then describes the key characteristics of model schools that are rising to the challenge.
The success of high-achieving schools teaches important lessons about how to design schools, classroom-level mathematics instruction, and the preparation of math teachers to reach those who are too often considered unreachable.
Posted on March 27, 2008 1:26 PM
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