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You have still not addressed, PP, the fact that BASIS does exactly this at its non-selective, non-G&T schools in Arizona.
 
From the BASIS Chandler home page: " The Social Science courses tackle advanced content curriculum, and all students complete a minimum of Algebra 1 by the end of seventh grade." (https://www.basisschools.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=161&Itemid=284)

Do you believe it yet?[/quote]

Haven't posted for many pages.  Have a cousin with a kid in Basis in AZ.  The girl, white from an upper-middle-class home, came out of a GT ES math program (with pullout math groups & a gifted coordinator) yet, according to my cousin, struggled with 7th grade algebra and kept up only by working with a tutor the parents hired.

My cousin also tells me that 7th grade algebra felled a good number of the low-SES minority (mostly Latino) kids in her daughter's grade  - some won't be back for 8th.   You haven't heard the last of the 7th grade algebra issue, folks.   Even Singapore, which tests in the top several countries for math internationally on the OECD PISA tests, has trouble teaching 7th grade algebra to all kids.  I taught there at an international school five a few years ago.

The famous Basis Chandler home page isn't telling the whole story.

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