A Stanford study backed up these claims, showing participation in Advanced Placement math initially fell 15% while “large ethnoracial gaps in advanced math course-taking remained.”
Thomas S. Dee, a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and an author of the earlier Stanford study, said he celebrates the board’s move: He and co-author Elizabeth Huffaker, as part of a second study currently in the works, found that 8th graders who took Algebra I along with Common Core Math 8 as part of the pilot program experienced substantial learning gains.
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