Learning Math Virtually: What’s Essential in Assessment?
What a difference a pandemic makes. Just last week, the University of California system broke with decades of tradition by deciding to permanently suspend the SAT and ACT tests as … More
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Coronavirus and College Admissions: Ensuring Flexibility, Clarity and Equity
As students around the country face unprecedented disruptions to their high school experiences, institutions of higher education are waiving once-rigid admissions requirements, such as test scores and grades in required … More
Promises and Pitfalls of Diverse Math Pathways: Examining Equity in Students’ Course Choices
Diversifying the pathways students take through high school and college mathematics has the potential to open avenues to college for more students. That’s why many of us support efforts to … More
Just Equations is hiring an Administrative Intern
Administrative Intern – $22.00 an hour, 10 hours per week This internship is an opportunity to learn about education policy while support the Just Equations mission. Position Summary The Administrative … More
Math in CSU Admissions: Moving Forward with Evidence
The recent debate over California State University’s well-intended proposal to require an additional quantitative reasoning (QR) course for admission highlights the challenges of efforts to bolster mathematics preparation. And the … More
We can make math less traumatic by ensuring every student is on the right pathway
Mathematics classes and tests—even more than other subjects— are regularly used to rank students and limit their future opportunities. The practice of tracking students into lower-quality course options with less … More
Why Calculus? Why Indeed?
Why does high school calculus, generally AP Calculus, play such an outsize role in the access to competitive colleges? And should it? Clearly the reason for the dominance of Calculus … More
Just Equations is hiring a Math Education Equity Fellow
POSITION SUMMARY Just Equations (JEQ) seeks a Math Education Equity Fellow to help expand our cross-sector network and deepen support within the mathematics education community for evidence-based, equity-oriented math pathways … More