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Back in the 1950s, high schools taught calculus like any other math topic. No one saw it as accelerated —just part of a solid education. But by the 1990s, U.S. education started getting softer. Now, it's Asian American students leading the charge to remind the country that preparing youth for today’s STEM demands means bringing back general education standards, like learning calculus in high school, just as before. It’s time to ditch the identity-based entitlement mindset and return to the American way of learning math through practice and hard work.

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Myth. Calculus was not common in 12th grade. [/quote]

It’s never been common, even for college bound students. Some smaller districts don’t offer Calc at all. Some kids who know they’re going into a non-STEM field in college and aren’t strong math students don’t take it. And critically - the SAT and ACT don’t have calculus questions in math. They stop at a pre-calc/trigonometry level. Thats because the testing companies know that not every HS is going to get to Calculus, but that shouldn’t stop students from taking and doing well on the standardized tests. [/quote]

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