Education News and Bookmarking for Mathetude community http://www.mathetude.com:80/rss/stories/upcoming.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/images/logo.png http://www.mathetude.com:80/ vi-vn Copyright (c) 2007 Mathetude.com javacola@gmail.com Wed Feb 08 10:32:13 CST 2012 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.mathetude.com:80/ A new system that tracks every public school student finds that about 3.5% of eighth-graders — 17,257 in all — left school and didn't return for ninth grade. The high school dropout rate is 18.2%. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13046.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13046.html Mathetude nitajo 12/08/2011 Even as schools aim to better prepare students for a global workforce, fewer than one in three US students are proficient in geography, with most eighth-graders unable to explain what causes earthquakes or accurately describe the American Southwest, according to a report released yesterday morning. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12874.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12874.html Mathetude nitajo 20/07/2011 A Sacramento Superior Court judge Friday blocked a controversial state plan requiring that all California eighth-graders be tested in algebra. The state's algebra mandate would have been the most ambitious in the nation. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/5953.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/5953.html Mathetude nitajo 22/12/2008 In the first year that eighth-graders were required to pass the reading and math sections of the TAKS before being promoted, 14 percent of students failed in math and 5 percent failed the reading portion of the exam, according to a report from the Texas Education Agency. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/5918.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/5918.html Mathetude nitajo 18/12/2008 Algebra is considered a "gateway" course for higher learning. Students who take it that year are on track for calculus as seniors. President Clinton made eighth-grade algebra a priority, and an influential 1995 book labeled algebra "The New Civil Right." http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/5219.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/5219.html Mathetude nitajo 22/09/2008 Groups representing school administrators and local education boards are challenging California's requirement that all eighth-graders be tested in algebra. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/5079.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/5079.html Mathetude nitajo 05/09/2008 This week's dust-up over whether all of California's eighth-graders should be taking algebra encapsulates one of the state's overarching educational dilemmas: Is it wise to set educational standards that apply to all students, even though they have an astonishing and ever-widening array of innate abilities and cultural, economic, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds? http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4670.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4670.html Mathetude nitajo 14/07/2008 Every California eighth-grader will be tested in algebra -- ready or not -- under a policy approved Wednesday that could make the state the first in the nation to require an upper-level math class before high school. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4644.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4644.html Mathetude nitajo 10/07/2008 An algebra war has broken out in the top levels of government that could cause shock waves in middle schools across the state. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday urged the California State Board of Education to require that all eighth-graders be tested in Algebra 1. If the board agrees during a meeting today, it would mark a huge shift for California middle schools. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4632.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4632.html Mathetude nitajo 09/07/2008