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
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
REPORT: High School Math Pathways Are Critical to Education Equity Broadly … Not Just Math Success
BERKELEY, CALIF. — Mathematics may seem timeless, but the way it’s being taught isn’t keeping up with the times. Current course sequences — or math pathways — create barriers to … More
Expanding Opportunity Through the Purpose of Math
The purpose of math is not to make students miserable. It is not to instill fear in them. And it is definitely not to create a pecking order among students. … More