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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The math curriculum in US is very slow. It's not advanced academy, it's just normal academy in other countries.  In China, Japan and Eastern Europe, all student study Algebra at 7th grade.

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Let me fix this for you…

All students who score high on exams given in ES and are placed on specific tracks take Algebra in 7th grade. Kind of like what FCPS does. The rest of the world uses tests in to track students into specific tracks and programs. There were newspaper articles when Prince George was in 5th grade that he was worried about his upcoming exams because they would determine what classes he could take in Year 6 and beyond. If you don’t score well enough on those exams in 5th grade, you attend a different type of school and you don’t sit the exams needed to attend college. Other European and Asian countries have similar systems.

The US doesn’t do this. US test scores include kids in SPED programs, ELL programs, and general Ed programs. European and Asian test scores include kids who tested into the college prep programs. It is very different and the numbers are not really comparable.

I would guess comparing kids in AP/IB programs in the US to the rest of the world would show that the US is not really behind but that is not how the US handles education. [/quote]

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