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September 2023
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Math and College Admissions

The Pandemic Accelerated Already Declining Math Scores. It’s Time To Reverse That.

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Pamela Burdman
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Four graduating classes, or about 13.5 million students, have been affected by the pandemic. The class of 2022 earned an average ACT score of 19.8, the lowest in more than 30 years. Math scores have declined to 19.3. The scores also reveal a deepening chasm that leaves Black, Latinx, and other underrepresented students even further behind when it comes to the math skills they need for college admissions.
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August 2023
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Math and College Admissions

How Math Opportunity Can Promote Diversity and Equity in Higher Education

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Pamela Burdman
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Melodie Baker
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As colleges and universities work to create racially inclusive student bodies without race-conscious admissions practices, the outsize role that mathematics plays in restricting college access needs more attention. We need to make sure that access to college as well as to STEM careers is driven by students’ potential, not by their race or other background characteristics.
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July 2023
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High School Math Policies

Rx for Data Science Education Debates: More Light and Less Heat

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Pamela Burdman
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This is the story of how math courses taken by fewer than 1 percent of applicants to the University of California played a dominant role in the state’s K–12 math education discussions for more than two years. To be more precise, it is less about the math courses they took, and more about those they didn’t take. I’m referring to students who took statistics in high school, but not Algebra II.
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June 2023
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Math and College Admissions

Adding Perspective: Why Student Voices Are Integral to Math Access

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Elisha Smith Arrillaga
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Access to rigorous, high-quality mathematics is essential for high school students reaching their full potential, whether or not they pursue a degree or career in STEM. To best understand students’ math opportunities, it’s important that we hear directly from them. Their perspectives are critical to finding and implementing solutions to improve access to advanced math courses.
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May 2023
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Rethinking Math

Math and Mental Health: Tackling Anxiety and Burnout

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Pamela Burdman
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Math anxiety and burnout are bearing down on high school students in a post-pandemic academic landscape. And math classes’ lack of relevance to the contemporary world appears to have something to do with it.
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