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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there any recommended math curriculums? Spiraled or not? What do they do in the areas with good schools (MA, NY, etc)? [/quote]

These areas have similar problems of taking away advanced academic programs because it is mostly Asians in them.
Boston Public Schools said so directly.  They also have a statewide policy of rating schools based on the differential in performance in races, giving them an incentive to not teach the better performing races.
NY Mayor is looking to make the good schools get rid of the merit based admission.[/quote]

No not the cities -the small MC/UMC towns up there that are well known to have great schools. How are they teaching math? [/quote]

I took a look at Newton Public Schools, and their first link is to NCTM.  They are using Investigations for elementary curriculum and Illustrative for midd;e school.
No sign that they are allowing advancement, but this is generally not available on websites.
Curriculum document includes 
"[youtube]Additional rich and engaging tasks meant to meet the needs of all of our middle school students are provided for teachers from resources such as The Shell Center and Dan Meyer’s 3 Act Tasks.  "

Cambridge looks similar.
Burlington is very uninformative, however they have this for the 6th grade curriculum and it looks like a blended approach and probably similar to what we should expect from Virginia if they are really following an advanced path that lets kids take calculus in 12th.
This is higher level than the regular track Math 6 right now.
https://sites.google.com/bpsk12.org/mrs-crowley-math-20202021/curriculum-overview[/quote]

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