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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone who strongly believes these math changes is posting that a study done by Jo Boaler called the Railside Study proves detracking, using constructivist math programs and group work is superior. However, when actual mathematicians looked into get study they found the findings didn’t really support that. They cleverly figured out what three schools she studied (she changed the school names for privacy) and found she was comparing a school where all 9th graders took algebra to two schools where only the lowest kids took algebra in 9th because the highest ones took algebra in 7th or 8th grade. Then she concluded that detracking, constructivist math, and group work was superior because the algebra scores were higher in the high school where all the students took algebra in 9th compared to the two schools where only the lowest kids took algebra. Here is a much more detailed explanation and you can then find links that explain the issue better than I am. 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/educationrealist.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/jo-boalers-railside-study-the-schools-identified-kind-of/amp/[/quote]

It is really scary that people would hold up one school - ONE - as evidence of some theory working, even if it turned out this academic hadn’t put a thumb on the scales by looking at mismatched sets of students. [/quote]

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