San Francisco brings back Algebra

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Anonymous wrote:DP. The case in favor of woke curricula would be stronger if the examples of top schools that include woke were outside the US rather than inside the US.

How so?

US PISA scores - which are objective knowledge tests - are so much lower than than many other countries. The case would be stronger if one showed that schools with woke curricula performed well in a country where PISA scores are strong across the board.

My point is that woke curricula =/= poor academics. The existence of an entire class of elite private schools with woke curricula and elite academics proves my point. PISA averages don't really matter since PP is not an average American and average schools were never on the table in this conversation to begin with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. The case in favor of woke curricula would be stronger if the examples of top schools that include woke were outside the US rather than inside the US.

How so?

US PISA scores - which are objective knowledge tests - are so much lower than than many other countries. The case would be stronger if one showed that schools with woke curricula performed well in a country where PISA scores are strong across the board.

My point is that woke curricula =/= poor academics. The existence of an entire class of elite private schools with woke curricula and elite academics proves my point. PISA averages don't really matter since PP is not an average American and average schools were never on the table in this conversation to begin with.

I don't have an opinion either way about woke curricula.

However, I do care about statistics. A sample of only 5-20 schools simply is not credible evidence to support any claim either way. Pointing to a broadly used curriculum - impossible in the US due to many local school boards each operating independently - with large sample size and good statistical controls would be more persuasive. Hence the suggestion to look outside the US.

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Anonymous wrote:Glad to see they are bringing it back and that the idiocy of not having it did not spread far and wide. VA was on track to do something similar but thankfully did not.

No, it wasn’t.

Is that not what VMPI was?

No it wasn't. That has been debunked a dozen times on this forum.

+1 million

Facts:

> VMPI never proposed eliminating algebra in middle school.

> Calculus/IB were always included as a pathway.

People with a political agenda have been pushing lies about this forever.