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You've made this argument before in other threads. Can you say what it is based on? At present, FCPS is trying to raise the share of underrepresented students taking Algebra 1 in 8th grade so they may be doing outreach and providing encouragement for these kids to consider taking Algebra 1. Are you in a school where this is occurring? But this effort is focused on the demographic shares of who takes Algebra 1 in 8th grade, not the overall share of students taking Algebra 1 itself. If anything, [b]the theme in national math reform efforts (beginning with Common Core) is to encourage kids to delay Algebra 1 until 9th grade.[/b] There has been no signal that I can think of that indicates FCPS is advocating 8th grade Algebra 1 for all students.  Can you elaborate on your thinking?[/quote]
Just to correct this opinion, there is "no theme" - this is the power fantasy of a clique of "math ed" people like Jo Boaler.  These are people who (a) have [url=https://www.scottaaronson.com/cmf-documents/Jo_Boaler_Emails.pdf]no clue of math[/url], (b) [url=https://sites.google.com/view/publiccommentsonthecmf/]have been deliberately misrepresenting research[/url], and (c) are driven [url=https://stanfordreview.org/boaler-professor/]by personal gain[/url] (though like with all similar "leaders," the majority of their followers is driven by a combination of lack of knowledge and ideological beliefs.)

So-called "underrepresented students" have the same right as everyone else to do math and they are hurt by these "reform efforts" [url=https://www.mathpathsf.com/]as much as everyone else[/url]. Actually, more so if you look at [url=https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2021/12/san-francisco-math/]California's results[/url]:

[i]O’Connell High School enrolled the highest percentage of Black students among the district’s comprehensive high schools in the 2018-19 school year. In the 2014-15 school year, based on standardized tests, a mere 6% of the school’s Black students met math standards. As bad as that sounds, it got worse after the district changed the way it taught math. In the 2018-19 school year, that number dropped to 0%.

Willie Brown Middle School had the highest percentage of Black enrollment that same year among middle schools. Since it opened in 2015, the percentage of students meeting math standards dropped from 14% to 7.8% in 2019. The percentage of Black students meeting standards remained below 4% during all four of those years in between. In the 2018-19 school year, only 1.5% of the school’s 84 Black students met math standards. [/i]

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From the very same article:
[i]At Presidio and Roosevelt Middle Schools, the two middle schools with the highest percentages of white students, test scores saw significant improvement. The percentage of Black and Latino students meeting standards increased by double digits at both schools.[/i]

More evidence that socioeconomic and racial integration of kids leads to improved results for everyone. FCPS needs to address the fact that we have created a significant fracture between the high-FARMs and low-FARMs schools. Otherwise we'll never move past having a sizable fraction of failing schools that will continually suck away attention from the other schools.[/quote]

That quote doesn't say anything about "everyone". It only says "the percentage of Black and Latino students meeting standards increased" (which is good) and avoids saying anything about "White" or Asian outcomes. 
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