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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If not test blind, then they are or will become test aware.  Colleges don’t want to keep offering middle school and high school math courses for kids with 4.0+ GPAs who were passed along with As across the board.  [/quote]

A friend who teaches chemistry at Yale has been puzzling over the rise in the number of students who haven’t mastered high school math in his classes. What a mystery… [/quote]

I just read a piece that said that math has not bounced back.  Kids in the past 4 years are still scoring lower on average on ACT and SAT math than they were pre-Covid.  They are seeing it more with math, particularly algebra.  The reading/verbal/english has evened back out. They talked about accelerated math to push kids ahead w/out proper foundation, kids not learning it well in a virtual environment during Covid and grade inflation that gives parents/students 'false mastery'.

My son had straight As in intensified math and scored perfect 600 on SOL algebra, etc. At end of 7th grade when he took a math placement test for a private high school to gauge whether he could skip algebra he scored a 58%!!  They had concepts he had never seen that the MS did not teach.  He also had an awful algebra teacher that was later fired.  Even though he got an 'A' in the course, I had him repeat it in 8th grade with a new teacher.  He's done well in math since then--but it's funny we still see the types of questions he was missing on practice ACT tests were Algebra.[/quote]

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