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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the person questioning it, this Department of Education report notes 48% of IS public high schools offer Calculus: https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/crdc-student-access-enrollment.pdf [/quote] Incredibly sad. Graduated HS in the late 70s and my public HS had Calculus. But also not surprising a number of states in a desire to bring about equity have lowered or tried to lower statewide math programs. Absolutely no reason to not offer at least basic calculus in HS anywhere in the US. As others have said, we are here because of 3 basic factors - DEI, test optional and rampant grade inflation. Instead of watering down math education the US needs to start offering Algebra in elementary school. Math education in the US is well behind the rest of the world. [/quote] It’s conservative states bringing down the average…[/quote]
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