Is Grade 8 too early for algebra?
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Are all kids ready for that level of abstraction and complexity by eighth grade?
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If you're a student from a disadvantaged background - and are African-American or Hispanic - you are more likely to be placed in an algebra class in eighth grade than if you are a white suburban kid in an affluent district. The schools in the suburbs still have standards for entrants. -- Tom Loveless, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, and a critic of California's algebra rush