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Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\">ckbe.at/newsletters\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While older children are showing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64116/congress-poured-billions-of-dollars-into-schools-did-it-help-students-learn\">encouraging signs of academic recovery\u003c/a>, younger children are not making that same progress, and are sometimes falling even further behind, especially in math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.bfldr.com/LS6J0F7/at/4rqc5wtpxqf85mk4pxj6rm7/ca-2024-summer-research-student-growth-technical-report.pdf\">New data released Monday\u003c/a> points to the pandemic’s profound and enduring effects on the nation’s youngest public school children, many of whom were not yet in a formal school setting when COVID hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s showing that these students — who were either toddlers or maybe in preschool — that their learning was disrupted somehow,” said Kristen Huff, the vice president for research and assessment at Curriculum Associates, which provides math and reading tests to millions of students each year and authored the new report. “It’s striking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers and other experts have suggested several potential reasons for this trend. One is that the pandemic disrupted early childhood education and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57373/why-we-need-to-pay-more-attention-to-the-youngest-children-right-now-and-their-parents\">made it harder for many kids to learn foundational skills\u003c/a> — gaps that can compound over time. Fewer children enrolled in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-04-26/the-pandemic-erased-a-decade-of-public-preschool-gains\">preschool\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2020/9/22/21451625/kindergarten-enrollment-decline-coronavirus-pandemic-shift/\">kindergarten\u003c/a>, and many young children struggled with remote learning. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/01/upshot/pandemic-children-school-performance.html\">Increased parental stress and screen time\u003c/a> may also be factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also possible that schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63826/these-teens-were-missing-too-much-school-heres-what-it-took-to-get-them-back\">targeted more academic support to older children and teens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can see it as a call to action to make sure that we, as an educational community, are prioritizing those early grades,” Huff said. Those are critical years when children learn their letters and numbers and start reading and counting. “These are all the basics for being able to move along that learning trajectory for the rest of your schooling career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64123/pandemic-aid-to-schools-paid-off-but-we-dont-know-how\">A slew of recent reports\u003c/a> have examined students’ academic progress post-pandemic. \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2024/02/05/learning-loss-study-finds-surprising-academic-recovery-growing-inequality/\">Some researchers found\u003c/a> that students in third to eighth grade are making larger-than-usual gains, but that most kids are still behind their pre-pandemic peers. Meanwhile, academic gaps between students from low-income backgrounds and their more affluent peers have widened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Curriculum Associates report, which analyzed results from some 4 million students, is unique in that it includes data points for younger children who haven’t yet taken state tests. Researchers looked at how students who entered kindergarten to fourth grade during the 2021-22 school year performed in math and reading over three years, and compared that against kids who started the same grades just prior to the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children who began kindergarten in the fall of 2021, for example, scored close to what kindergartners did prior to the pandemic in reading. But over the last few years, they’ve fallen behind their counterparts. 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It will be especially important to pinpoint exactly which missing skills kids need to master so they can follow along with lessons in their current grade, Huff added. 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Kids who started first grade in the fall of 2021 have been consistently behind children who started first grade prior to the pandemic in reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In math, meanwhile, students who started kindergarten, first grade, and second grade in the fall of 2021 all started off scoring lower than their counterparts did prior to the pandemic. And they’ve consistently made less progress — putting them “significantly behind” their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger children made less progress than their pre-pandemic peers regardless of whether they went to schools in cities, suburbs or rural communities. And the students who started off further behind had the most difficulty catching up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools may want to consider changing up their academic interventions to focus more on early elementary schoolers, researchers said. It will be especially important to pinpoint exactly which missing skills kids need to master so they can follow along with lessons in their current grade, Huff added. This year, many of the report’s struggling students will be entering third and fourth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Charleston County, South Carolina, where \u003ca href=\"https://screportcards.com/overview/academics/academic-achievement/details/?q=eT0yMDIyJnQ9RCZzaWQ9MTAwMTAwMA\">younger students are outperforming\u003c/a> others \u003ca href=\"https://ed.sc.gov/data/test-scores/state-assessments/sc-ready/2023/state-scores-by-grade-level/?districtCode=9999&districtName=Statewide&schoolCode=999\">in their state\u003c/a>, especially in math, the district is using a few strategies that officials think have helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district made \u003ca href=\"https://www.live5news.com/2024/04/24/charleston-co-school-district-working-improve-reading-performance-levels/\">improving reading instruction a top priority\u003c/a>. Officials purchased a new curriculum to better align with the science of reading, gave teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/letrs-program-teacher-training\">extensive literacy skills training\u003c/a>, and started providing families more information about their kids’ academic performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crucially, said Buffy Roberts, who oversees assessments for Charleston County schools, the district identified groups of kids who were very behind and what it would take to catch them up over several years. Taking a longer view helped teachers break down a big job and ensured kids who needed a lot of help got more support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really helped people understand that if our students were already behind, making typical growth is great, but it’s not going to cut it,” Roberts said. “It was really thinking very strategically and being very targeted about what a child needs in order to get out of that, I hate to call it a hole, but it is a hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Kalyn Belsha is a senior national education reporter based in Chicago. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"mailto:kbelsha@chalkbeat.org\">\u003ci>kbelsha@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2024/07/03/pandemic-left-younger-students-struggling-to-make-academic-progress/\" rel=\"canonical\">Chalkbeat\u003c/a> is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/64159/they-werent-yet-in-school-when-covid-hit-the-pandemic-still-set-back-the-youngest-students","authors":["byline_mindshift_64159"],"categories":["mindshift_21345","mindshift_21504"],"tags":["mindshift_21343","mindshift_20720","mindshift_790","mindshift_21539","mindshift_392","mindshift_550"],"featImg":"mindshift_64160","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_63556":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_63556","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"63556","score":null,"sort":[1715043647000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1715043647,"format":"standard","title":"High School Math Can Be Playful, Too","headTitle":"High School Math Can Be Playful, Too | KQED","content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students reach high school math, play typically disappears from the curriculum. But \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/ecp/faculty/educationfaculty/kathy-liu-sun-phd/sun.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kathy Sun\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is discovering new ways to bring play into high school math. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62436/how-listening-to-students-stories-can-improve-math-class\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">student’s math identity\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is usually focused on procedural proficiency rather than a broader view of mathematical contributions and community, said Sun, a researcher and professor at Santa Clara University. Playfully engaging students in math concepts is not just \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55961/how-sidewalk-math-cultivates-a-playful-curious-attitude-towards-math\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a fun teaching strategy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but gets at the core of deepening mathematical understanding and connections, she continued.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MathforLove\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dan Finkel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a math curriculum writer and former math teacher, associates play in math with rigor, even at the highest level. “Mathematics has always been \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59291/after-a-texas-teacher-saw-his-students-struggling-with-math-he-turned-to-rap-music\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">animated by the sense of play\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the deepest mathematicians and deepest thinkers are the ones who can play with very technical things.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When high school students are allowed to play through mathematical concepts they are able to go beyond rote memorization. According to Sun, there are three elements that make up play in a math classroom: exploration, creativity and collaboration. When math activities inspire those elements, students who don’t usually speak up during class tend to make more frequent contributions. “They’re feeling more validated,” which increases belonging and persistence in mathematics, Sun explained.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Exploration\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Play-based approaches to math are about teachers figuring out “how to invite [their] students to take ownership of the material,” Finkel said. “What you usually get from a play-based approach is a much deeper and more powerful understanding and a greater sense of ownership over time”. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To embed exploration into high school math, Sun advocated for an approach that increases cognitive demand. Rote memorization and procedural tasks require low cognitive demand for students, she said during a recent conference session at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.learningandthebrain.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learning and The Brain: Teaching Engaged Brains\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Approaches like making creative connections, and understanding why something works are explorative ways for students to reach higher cognitive demand in math.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During her conference session, Sun recommended reworking math problems that take a procedural approach like asking students to follow the PEMDAS order of operations, to include more open-ended exploration. For example, math teachers can ask students to create expressions equivalent to integers 0-20 using only three numbers such as 3, 4 and 1 using one mathematical symbol or operation. This allows students to look beyond the memorization of a procedure and apply their own thinking to explore the same basic concepts. For take-home work, having students explore open-ended mathematical concepts through a technology like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.desmos.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Desmos\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or upping the demand of a simpler math task can foster further discussion in class the next day, Sun said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finkel said offering students choices – even if small – in how they approach a problem is what makes playful math rigorous. The student who plays “is much more likely to figure out a way to keep the game going,” he said. He also encouraged teachers to get students talking as part of their exploration. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56136/talking-math-with-tweens-how-to-bring-math-into-daily-life-with-middle-schoolers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inviting students into the mathematical conversation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can take one or two minutes of engaged conversation with students during a class period. One popular teaching strategy that Finkel pointed to is the notice and wonder technique, where teachers ask students to notice and wonder about something that came up during a class lesson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Finkel, when students have ownership over their own math exploration, they question less whether something is mathematically allowed and become more curious about what’s possible. This also makes them more likely to want to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54986/how-black-girls-benefit-when-math-has-social-interaction-and-ways-to-learn-together\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">include others in their mathematical exploration\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said Finkel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Creativity\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finkel has seen an entire class of students get a problem wrong on a test because of a slight variation in wording that they were not used to seeing. “That to me is the sign of a very fragile understanding,” he said. According to Finkel, math is too big of a subject and too difficult to understand if students are only given memorization tools.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A creative approach to high school math guides students in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53524/how-revising-math-exams-turns-students-into-learners-not-processors\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">making sense of mathematical concepts\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on their own, said Sun. When creativity is brought to students’ explorations in a math classroom, they discover mathematical rules in unconventional ways. Sun pointed to an example from a teacher that she observed during her research. The teacher set up the math problem by stating, “zero percent of 500 is zero, and one hundred percent of 500 is 500.” Then she asked her students to work in groups to find any 10 other percentage points of 500.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From her observation of the percentages classroom exercise, Sun found that the students were able to make up their own rules and successfully found 35 to 40 other percentage points on their own without the use of a plug-in formula. One group discovered, through their creative collaboration, that one percent of 500 was 5. Then as a class they discovered together that if they knew what one percent of 500 was, then they could find all the other percentage points. “There was excitement happening because kids were actually in the groups finding different percentages,” and by the end of the exercise, the students understood that a percent is part of a whole and that there are many ways to find percentages, said Sun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A play-based approach to high school level math is not just reserved for reinforcing concepts that have already been taught. Play can also be successfully applied at the introductory level of math concepts, Sun said in an interview. Rather than introducing a math concept or activity with vocabulary or formulaic memorization, frontloading with creative exploration gives students the opportunity to “make sense of the math themselves,” she continued. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Collaboration\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teacher modeling followed by independent practice is the norm for high school math instruction, but according to Sun, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54486/how-collaboration-unlocks-learning-and-lessens-student-isolation\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">collaboration among students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> allows them to reach deeper mathematical understanding.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In upper division high school math classes, Sun suggested incorporating activities like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://iste.org/blog/using-card-sort-activities-in-the-math-classroom#:~:text=Card%20sorts%20provide%20structure%20for,card%20into%20the%20appropriate%20category.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">card sorting\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. These activities not only help students identify patterns, and find solutions creatively, but they allow for students to collaborate to have a greater conceptual understanding of the material. For example, one of Sun’s student teachers recently did a card sorting activity with his pre-calculus students. He asked them to find derivatives of sine and cosine using card sorting, but then asked them a more difficult question: What would the 55th derivative look like? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Sun, the students worked in groups, some standing up, and got to work guessing and checking to find possible solutions. Students creatively engaged in the more challenging problem by playing with ideas that they were familiar with, said Sun. This was one question out of ten that the teacher presented to class. The other questions were more traditional in nature, but taking the extra five minutes to incorporate an element of collaborative play in the class went a long way. “I think the understanding was much deeper, and the conversation was much deeper,” said Sun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Putting it into practice\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can be daunting to introduce play within the bounds of a mathematical teaching system that hasn’t been designed for play. So, Sun suggested that math teachers slowly infuse little moments of play into their class periods. Sun has seen that 10 to 15 minute bursts of play are more manageable than overhauling an entire 55- or 90-minute class period. When it comes to math homework, Finkel said that the amount of creativity teachers should incorporate depends on student needs. If more traditional practice is needed, even one question that stretches students’ creativity can strengthen engagement, but the problem should have multiple entry points for students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sun recommended online resources like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://mathequalslove.net/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Math Equals Love\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stanford Graduate School of Education’s YouCubed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which offers creative activity ideas like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/resources/number-talks-all-ages-video/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">number talks\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/resource/data-talks/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">data talks.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sun and her colleagues have also developed their own \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/scu.edu/growth-mindset-in-stem/home\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">website with resources for math teachers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> looking to engage in more play based practices in their classrooms.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1356,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":20},"modified":1714999862,"excerpt":"When students reach high school math, play typically disappears from the curriculum. 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But \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/ecp/faculty/educationfaculty/kathy-liu-sun-phd/sun.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kathy Sun\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is discovering new ways to bring play into high school math. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62436/how-listening-to-students-stories-can-improve-math-class\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">student’s math identity\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is usually focused on procedural proficiency rather than a broader view of mathematical contributions and community, said Sun, a researcher and professor at Santa Clara University. Playfully engaging students in math concepts is not just \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55961/how-sidewalk-math-cultivates-a-playful-curious-attitude-towards-math\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a fun teaching strategy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but gets at the core of deepening mathematical understanding and connections, she continued.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MathforLove\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dan Finkel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a math curriculum writer and former math teacher, associates play in math with rigor, even at the highest level. “Mathematics has always been \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59291/after-a-texas-teacher-saw-his-students-struggling-with-math-he-turned-to-rap-music\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">animated by the sense of play\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the deepest mathematicians and deepest thinkers are the ones who can play with very technical things.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When high school students are allowed to play through mathematical concepts they are able to go beyond rote memorization. According to Sun, there are three elements that make up play in a math classroom: exploration, creativity and collaboration. When math activities inspire those elements, students who don’t usually speak up during class tend to make more frequent contributions. “They’re feeling more validated,” which increases belonging and persistence in mathematics, Sun explained.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Exploration\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Play-based approaches to math are about teachers figuring out “how to invite [their] students to take ownership of the material,” Finkel said. “What you usually get from a play-based approach is a much deeper and more powerful understanding and a greater sense of ownership over time”. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To embed exploration into high school math, Sun advocated for an approach that increases cognitive demand. Rote memorization and procedural tasks require low cognitive demand for students, she said during a recent conference session at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.learningandthebrain.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learning and The Brain: Teaching Engaged Brains\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Approaches like making creative connections, and understanding why something works are explorative ways for students to reach higher cognitive demand in math.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During her conference session, Sun recommended reworking math problems that take a procedural approach like asking students to follow the PEMDAS order of operations, to include more open-ended exploration. For example, math teachers can ask students to create expressions equivalent to integers 0-20 using only three numbers such as 3, 4 and 1 using one mathematical symbol or operation. This allows students to look beyond the memorization of a procedure and apply their own thinking to explore the same basic concepts. For take-home work, having students explore open-ended mathematical concepts through a technology like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.desmos.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Desmos\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or upping the demand of a simpler math task can foster further discussion in class the next day, Sun said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finkel said offering students choices – even if small – in how they approach a problem is what makes playful math rigorous. The student who plays “is much more likely to figure out a way to keep the game going,” he said. He also encouraged teachers to get students talking as part of their exploration. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56136/talking-math-with-tweens-how-to-bring-math-into-daily-life-with-middle-schoolers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inviting students into the mathematical conversation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can take one or two minutes of engaged conversation with students during a class period. One popular teaching strategy that Finkel pointed to is the notice and wonder technique, where teachers ask students to notice and wonder about something that came up during a class lesson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Finkel, when students have ownership over their own math exploration, they question less whether something is mathematically allowed and become more curious about what’s possible. This also makes them more likely to want to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54986/how-black-girls-benefit-when-math-has-social-interaction-and-ways-to-learn-together\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">include others in their mathematical exploration\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said Finkel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Creativity\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finkel has seen an entire class of students get a problem wrong on a test because of a slight variation in wording that they were not used to seeing. “That to me is the sign of a very fragile understanding,” he said. According to Finkel, math is too big of a subject and too difficult to understand if students are only given memorization tools.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A creative approach to high school math guides students in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53524/how-revising-math-exams-turns-students-into-learners-not-processors\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">making sense of mathematical concepts\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on their own, said Sun. When creativity is brought to students’ explorations in a math classroom, they discover mathematical rules in unconventional ways. Sun pointed to an example from a teacher that she observed during her research. The teacher set up the math problem by stating, “zero percent of 500 is zero, and one hundred percent of 500 is 500.” Then she asked her students to work in groups to find any 10 other percentage points of 500.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From her observation of the percentages classroom exercise, Sun found that the students were able to make up their own rules and successfully found 35 to 40 other percentage points on their own without the use of a plug-in formula. One group discovered, through their creative collaboration, that one percent of 500 was 5. Then as a class they discovered together that if they knew what one percent of 500 was, then they could find all the other percentage points. “There was excitement happening because kids were actually in the groups finding different percentages,” and by the end of the exercise, the students understood that a percent is part of a whole and that there are many ways to find percentages, said Sun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A play-based approach to high school level math is not just reserved for reinforcing concepts that have already been taught. Play can also be successfully applied at the introductory level of math concepts, Sun said in an interview. Rather than introducing a math concept or activity with vocabulary or formulaic memorization, frontloading with creative exploration gives students the opportunity to “make sense of the math themselves,” she continued. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Collaboration\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teacher modeling followed by independent practice is the norm for high school math instruction, but according to Sun, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54486/how-collaboration-unlocks-learning-and-lessens-student-isolation\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">collaboration among students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> allows them to reach deeper mathematical understanding.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In upper division high school math classes, Sun suggested incorporating activities like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://iste.org/blog/using-card-sort-activities-in-the-math-classroom#:~:text=Card%20sorts%20provide%20structure%20for,card%20into%20the%20appropriate%20category.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">card sorting\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. These activities not only help students identify patterns, and find solutions creatively, but they allow for students to collaborate to have a greater conceptual understanding of the material. For example, one of Sun’s student teachers recently did a card sorting activity with his pre-calculus students. He asked them to find derivatives of sine and cosine using card sorting, but then asked them a more difficult question: What would the 55th derivative look like? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Sun, the students worked in groups, some standing up, and got to work guessing and checking to find possible solutions. Students creatively engaged in the more challenging problem by playing with ideas that they were familiar with, said Sun. This was one question out of ten that the teacher presented to class. The other questions were more traditional in nature, but taking the extra five minutes to incorporate an element of collaborative play in the class went a long way. “I think the understanding was much deeper, and the conversation was much deeper,” said Sun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Putting it into practice\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can be daunting to introduce play within the bounds of a mathematical teaching system that hasn’t been designed for play. So, Sun suggested that math teachers slowly infuse little moments of play into their class periods. Sun has seen that 10 to 15 minute bursts of play are more manageable than overhauling an entire 55- or 90-minute class period. When it comes to math homework, Finkel said that the amount of creativity teachers should incorporate depends on student needs. If more traditional practice is needed, even one question that stretches students’ creativity can strengthen engagement, but the problem should have multiple entry points for students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sun recommended online resources like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://mathequalslove.net/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Math Equals Love\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stanford Graduate School of Education’s YouCubed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which offers creative activity ideas like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/resources/number-talks-all-ages-video/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">number talks\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/resource/data-talks/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">data talks.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sun and her colleagues have also developed their own \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/scu.edu/growth-mindset-in-stem/home\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">website with resources for math teachers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> looking to engage in more play based practices in their classrooms.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/63556/high-school-math-can-be-playful-too","authors":["11759"],"categories":["mindshift_192","mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_392","mindshift_498"],"featImg":"mindshift_63562","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_63658":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_63658","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"63658","score":null,"sort":[1714384831000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"many-math-teachers-cobble-together-their-own-instructional-materials-a-survey-finds","title":"Many Math Teachers Cobble Together Their Own Instructional Materials, a Survey Finds","publishDate":1714384831,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Many Math Teachers Cobble Together Their Own Instructional Materials, a Survey Finds | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. But this doesn’t mean they should be starting from a blank slate. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But a recent national survey of more than 1,000 math teachers reveals that many are rejecting the materials they should be using and cobbling together their own.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A surprising number of math teachers, particularly at the high school level, simply said we don’t use the district or school-provided materials, or they claimed they didn’t have any,” said \u003ca href=\"https://crmse.sdsu.edu/members/zahner\">William Zahner\u003c/a>, an associate professor of mathematics at San Diego State University, who \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mathematics-Teachers-Impressions-of-Instructional-Materials-for-English-Learners_-Results-from-a-National-Survey.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">presented the survey at the April 2024 annual meeting\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the American Educational Research Association in Philadelphia. Students, he said, are often being taught through a “bricolage” of materials that teachers assemble themselves from colleagues and the internet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What I see happening is a lot of math teachers are rewriting a curriculum that has already been written,” said Zahner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The survey results varied by grade level. More than 75% of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50% of high school math teachers said they did. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cb>Share of math teachers who use their school’s recommended materials\u003c/b>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63659\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/image1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/image1-1.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/image1-1-160x79.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/image1-1-768x378.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Less than half of high school math teachers reported using their school’s recommended instructional materials. \u003ccite>(Source: Zahner et al, Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Instructional Materials for English Learners: Results from a National Survey, presented at AERA 2024.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The do-it-yourself approach has two downsides, Zahner said, both of which affect students. One problem is that it’s time consuming. Time spent finding materials is time not spent giving students feedback, tailoring existing lessons for students or giving students one-to-one tutoring help. The hunt for materials is also exhausting and can lead to teacher burnout, Zahner said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other problem is that teacher-made materials may sacrifice the thoughtful sequencing of topics planned by curriculum designers. When teachers create or take materials from various sources, it is hard to maintain a “coherent development” of ideas, Zahner explained. Curriculum designers may weave a review of previous concepts to reinforce them even as new ideas are introduced. Teacher-curated materials may be disjointed. Separate research has found that some of the most popular materials that teachers grab from internet sites, such as Teachers Pay Teachers, are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/most-english-lessons-on-teachers-pay-teachers-and-other-sites-are-mediocre-or-not-worth-using-study-finds/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">not high quality\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The national survey was conducted in 2021 by researchers at San Diego State University, including Zahner, who also directs the university’s Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education, and the English Learners Success Forum, a nonprofit that seeks to improve the quality of instructional materials for English learners. The researchers sought out the views of teachers who worked in school districts where more than 10% of the students were classified as English learners, which is the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cgf/english-learners#:~:text=The%20percentage%20of%20public%20school,%2C%20or%204.5%20million%20students).\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">national average\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. More than 1,000 math teachers, from kindergarten through 12th grade, responded. On average, 30% of their students were English learners, but some teachers had zero English learners and others had all English learners in their classrooms.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers were asked about the drawbacks of their assigned curriculum for English learners. Many said that their existing materials weren’t connected to their students’ languages and cultures. Others said that the explanations of how to tailor a lesson to an English learner were too general to be useful. Zahner says that teachers have a point and that they need more support in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60104/how-to-structure-academic-math-conversations-to-support-english-learners\">how to help English learners develop the language of mathematical reasoning and argumentation\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was not clear from this survey whether the desire to accommodate English learners was the primary reason that teachers were putting together their own materials or whether they would have done so anyway. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There are a thousand reasons why this is happening,” said Zahner. One high school teacher in Louisiana who participated in the survey said his students needed a more advanced curriculum. Supervisors inside a school may not like the materials that officials in a central office have chosen. “Sometimes schools have the materials but they’re all hidden in a closet,” Zahner said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the midst of a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61581/how-a-debate-over-the-science-of-math-could-reignite-the-math-wars\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">national debate on how best to teach math\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, this survey is an important reminder of yet another reason why many students aren’t getting the instruction that they need. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-many-high-school-math-teachers-cobble-together-their-own-instructional-materials-from-the-internet-and-elsewhere-a-survey-finds/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">math lessons\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proof Points\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and other \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletters\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Researchers say a DIY approach to math curriculum isn’t serving students well.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717627485,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":820},"headData":{"title":"Many Math Teachers Cobble Together Their Own Instructional Materials, a Survey Finds | KQED","description":"Researchers say a DIY approach to math curriculum isn’t serving students well.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"mindshift_63661","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"mindshift_63661","socialDescription":"Researchers say a DIY approach to math curriculum isn’t serving students well.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Many Math Teachers Cobble Together Their Own Instructional Materials, a Survey Finds","datePublished":"2024-04-29T03:00:31-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-05T15:44:45-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Jill Barshay, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/63658/many-math-teachers-cobble-together-their-own-instructional-materials-a-survey-finds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. But this doesn’t mean they should be starting from a blank slate. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But a recent national survey of more than 1,000 math teachers reveals that many are rejecting the materials they should be using and cobbling together their own.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A surprising number of math teachers, particularly at the high school level, simply said we don’t use the district or school-provided materials, or they claimed they didn’t have any,” said \u003ca href=\"https://crmse.sdsu.edu/members/zahner\">William Zahner\u003c/a>, an associate professor of mathematics at San Diego State University, who \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mathematics-Teachers-Impressions-of-Instructional-Materials-for-English-Learners_-Results-from-a-National-Survey.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">presented the survey at the April 2024 annual meeting\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the American Educational Research Association in Philadelphia. Students, he said, are often being taught through a “bricolage” of materials that teachers assemble themselves from colleagues and the internet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What I see happening is a lot of math teachers are rewriting a curriculum that has already been written,” said Zahner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The survey results varied by grade level. More than 75% of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50% of high school math teachers said they did. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cb>Share of math teachers who use their school’s recommended materials\u003c/b>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63659\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/image1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/image1-1.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/image1-1-160x79.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/image1-1-768x378.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Less than half of high school math teachers reported using their school’s recommended instructional materials. \u003ccite>(Source: Zahner et al, Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Instructional Materials for English Learners: Results from a National Survey, presented at AERA 2024.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The do-it-yourself approach has two downsides, Zahner said, both of which affect students. One problem is that it’s time consuming. Time spent finding materials is time not spent giving students feedback, tailoring existing lessons for students or giving students one-to-one tutoring help. The hunt for materials is also exhausting and can lead to teacher burnout, Zahner said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other problem is that teacher-made materials may sacrifice the thoughtful sequencing of topics planned by curriculum designers. When teachers create or take materials from various sources, it is hard to maintain a “coherent development” of ideas, Zahner explained. Curriculum designers may weave a review of previous concepts to reinforce them even as new ideas are introduced. Teacher-curated materials may be disjointed. Separate research has found that some of the most popular materials that teachers grab from internet sites, such as Teachers Pay Teachers, are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/most-english-lessons-on-teachers-pay-teachers-and-other-sites-are-mediocre-or-not-worth-using-study-finds/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">not high quality\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The national survey was conducted in 2021 by researchers at San Diego State University, including Zahner, who also directs the university’s Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education, and the English Learners Success Forum, a nonprofit that seeks to improve the quality of instructional materials for English learners. The researchers sought out the views of teachers who worked in school districts where more than 10% of the students were classified as English learners, which is the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cgf/english-learners#:~:text=The%20percentage%20of%20public%20school,%2C%20or%204.5%20million%20students).\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">national average\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. More than 1,000 math teachers, from kindergarten through 12th grade, responded. On average, 30% of their students were English learners, but some teachers had zero English learners and others had all English learners in their classrooms.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers were asked about the drawbacks of their assigned curriculum for English learners. Many said that their existing materials weren’t connected to their students’ languages and cultures. Others said that the explanations of how to tailor a lesson to an English learner were too general to be useful. Zahner says that teachers have a point and that they need more support in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60104/how-to-structure-academic-math-conversations-to-support-english-learners\">how to help English learners develop the language of mathematical reasoning and argumentation\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was not clear from this survey whether the desire to accommodate English learners was the primary reason that teachers were putting together their own materials or whether they would have done so anyway. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There are a thousand reasons why this is happening,” said Zahner. One high school teacher in Louisiana who participated in the survey said his students needed a more advanced curriculum. Supervisors inside a school may not like the materials that officials in a central office have chosen. “Sometimes schools have the materials but they’re all hidden in a closet,” Zahner said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the midst of a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61581/how-a-debate-over-the-science-of-math-could-reignite-the-math-wars\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">national debate on how best to teach math\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, this survey is an important reminder of yet another reason why many students aren’t getting the instruction that they need. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-many-high-school-math-teachers-cobble-together-their-own-instructional-materials-from-the-internet-and-elsewhere-a-survey-finds/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">math lessons\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. 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But despite all her fans, she has sparked controversy at nearly every stage of her career. Critics say she misrepresents research to make her case and her ideas actually impede students. Now, with a new book coming out in May, provocatively titled “MATH-\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ish\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” Boaler is fighting back. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is a whole effort to shut me down, my research and my writing,” said Boaler. “I see it as a form of knowledge suppression.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Academic fights usually don’t make it beyond the ivory tower. But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. In the last few months, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2024/03/22/opinion/dei-math-ed-prof-who-helped-get-algebra-banned-in-frisco-is-accused-of-faulty-research/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tabloids\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.piratewires.com/p/jo-boaler-misrepresented-citations\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">conservative publications\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have turned Boaler into something of an education villain who’s captured the attention of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1770663755149656458\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elon Musk\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1770659605774786758\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Texas Sen. Ted Cruz\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on social media. Critics have even questioned Boaler’s association with a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.piratewires.com/p/yolande-beckles-scammer-california-education-system\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">former reality tv star\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I am the next target,” Boaler said, describing the death threats and abusive email she’s been receiving.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This controversy matters on a much larger level because there is a legitimate debate about how math should be taught in American schools. Cognitive science research suggests that students need a lot of practice and memorization to master math. And once students achieve success through practice, this success will motivate them to learn and enjoy math. In other words, success increases motivation at least as much as motivation produces success. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet, from Boaler’s perspective, too many students feel like failures in math class and hate the subject. That leaves us with millions of Americans who are innumerate. Nearly 2 out of every 5 eighth graders don’t even have the most basic math skills, according to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/mathematics/2022/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (NAEP). On the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-there-is-a-worldwide-problem-in-math-and-its-not-just-about-the-pandemic/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler draws upon a different body of research about student motivation that looks at the root causes of why students don’t like math based on surveys and interviews. Students who are tracked into low-level classes feel discouraged. Struggling math students often describe feelings of anxiety from timed tests. Many students express frustration that math is just a collection of meaningless procedures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler seeks to fix these root causes. She advocates for ending tracking by ability in math classes, getting rid of timed tests and starting with conceptual understanding before introducing procedures. Most importantly, she wants to elevate the work that students tackle in math classes with more interesting questions that spark genuine curiosity and encourage students to think and wonder. Her goal is to expose students to the beauty of mathematical thinking as mathematicians enjoy the subject. Whether students actually learn more math the Boaler way is where this dispute centers. In other words, how strong is the evidence base?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The latest battle over Boaler’s work began with an anonymous complaint published in March by the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://freebeacon.com/california/san-francisco-cited-this-professor-to-end-8th-grade-algebra-her-research-had-reckless-disregard-for-accuracy-complaint-alleges/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Free Beacon\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the same conservative website that first surfaced plagiarism accusations against Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University. The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.proton.me/urls/P7BYBG7E6R#VCfOpReAcH9F\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">complaint\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> accuses Boaler of a “reckless disregard for accuracy” by misrepresenting research citations 52 times and asks Stanford to discipline Boaler, a full professor with an endowed chair. Stanford has said it’s reviewing the complaint and hasn’t decided whether to open an investigation, according to news reports. Boaler \u003ca href=\"https://joboaler.people.stanford.edu/\">stands by her research\u003c/a> (other than one citation that she says has been fixed) and calls the anonymous complaint “bogus.” \u003cspan style=\"color: #111111;font-family: Tiempos,Georgia,serif;font-size: medium\">(\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #111111;font-family: Tiempos,Georgia,serif;font-size: medium\">\u003ci>UPDATE: The Hechinger Report learned after this article was published that Stanford has decided \u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/7e_rCXDM32FOJLk3SkNtc7?domain=stanforddaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Tiempos,Georgia,serif;font-size: medium\">\u003ci>not to open an investigation\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"color: #111111;font-family: Tiempos,Georgia,serif;font-size: medium\">\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #111111;font-family: Tiempos,Georgia,serif;font-size: medium\">)\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They haven’t even got the courage to put their name on accusations like this,” Boaler said. “That tells us something.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler first drew fire from critics in 2005, when she presented new \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nrich.maths.org/content/id/7011/nrich%20paper.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research claiming that students at a low-income school\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who were behind grade level had outperformed students at higher achieving schools when they were taught in classrooms that combined students of different math achievement levels. The supposed secret sauce was an unusual curriculum that emphasized group work and de-emphasized lectures. Critics disparaged the findings and hounded her to release her data. Math professors at Stanford and Cal State University \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Articles/v8n1.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">re-crunched the numbers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and declared they’d found the opposite result.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler, who is originally from England, retreated to an academic post back in the U.K., but returned to Stanford in 2010 with a fighting spirit. She had written a book, “What’s Math Got to Do with It?: How Parents and Teachers Can Help Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject,” which explained to a general audience why challenging, open-ended problems would help more children to embrace math and how the current approach of boring drills and formulas was turning too many kids off. Teachers loved it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler accused her earlier critics of academic \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/15/stanford-professor-goes-public-attacks-over-her-math-education-research\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bullying and harassment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But she didn’t address their legitimate research questions. Instead, she focused on changing classrooms. Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. Building on this new fan base, she founded a nonprofit organization at Stanford called youcubed to train teachers, conduct research and spread her gospel. Boaler says a half million teachers now visit youcubed’s website each month.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. She lamented that too many low-income Black and Hispanic children were stuck in discouraging, low-level math classes. She advocated for change. In 2014, San Francisco \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/19433?view_id=47&redirect=true\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">heeded that call\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade. Parents, especially in the city’s large Asian community, protested that delaying algebra was holding their children back. Without starting algebra in middle school, it was difficult to progress to high school calculus, an important course for college applications. Parents blamed Boaler, who applauded San Francisco for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-how-one-city-got-math-right/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">getting math right\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Ten years later, the city is slated to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2024-02-14-sfusd-offer-algebra-1-8th-grade-beginning-2024-25-school-year#:~:text=San%20Francisco%20(February%2014%2C%202024,at%20its%20regular%20meeting%20Tuesday.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reinstate algebra for eighth graders\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> this fall. Boaler denies any involvement in the unpopular San Francisco reforms.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before that math experiment unraveled in San Francisco, California education policymakers tapped Boaler to be one of the lead writers of a new math framework, which would guide math instruction throughout the state. The first draft discouraged tracking children into separate math classes by achievement levels, and proposed delaying algebra until high school. It emphasized “social justice” and suggested that students could take data science instead of advanced algebra in high school. Traditional math proponents worried that the document would water down math instruction in California, hinder advanced students and make it harder to pursue STEM careers. And they were concerned that California’s proposed reforms could spread across the nation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the battle to quash the framework, critics attacked Boaler for trying to institute “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://blog.independent.org/2023/07/10/californias-flawed-k-12-math-framework/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">woke\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” mathematics. The battle became personal, with some criticizing her \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oxnardsd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&ModuleInstanceID=16044&ViewID=DEDCCD34-7C24-4AF2-812A-33C0075398BC&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=25705&PageID=10939&Tag=&Comments=true\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$5,000-an-hour\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> consulting and speaking fees at public schools while sending her own children to private school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critics also dug into the weeds of the framework document, which is how this also became a research story. A Stanford mathematics professor catalogued a list of what he saw as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/publiccommentsonthecmf/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research misrepresentations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Those citations, together with additional characterizations of research findings throughout Boaler’s writings, eventually grew into the anonymous complaint that’s now at Stanford.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the time the most recent complaint against Boaler was lodged, the framework had already been revised in substantial ways. Boaler’s critics had arguably won their main policy battles. College-bound students still need the traditional course sequence and cannot substitute data science for advanced algebra. California’s middle schools will continue to have the option to track children into separate classes and start algebra in eighth grade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the attacks on Boaler continue. In addition to seeking sanctions from Stanford, her anonymous critics have asked academic journals to pull down her papers, according to Boaler. They’ve written to conference organizers to stop Boaler from speaking and, she says, they’ve told her funders to stop giving money to her. At least one, the Valhalla Foundation, the family foundation of billionaire Scott Cook (co-founder of the software giant Intuit), stopped funding youcubed in 2024. In 2022 and 2023, it gave Boaler’s organization more than $560,000. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler sees the continued salvos against her as part of the larger right-wing attack on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI. She also sees a misogynistic pattern of taking down women who have power in education, such as Claudine Gay. “You’re basically hung, drawn and quartered by the court of Twitter,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From my perch as a journalist who covers education research, I see that Boaler has a tendency to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielwillingham.com/daniel-willingham-science-and-education-blog/march-13th-2019\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">overstate the implications\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of a narrow study. Sometimes she cites a theory that’s been written about in an academic journal but hasn’t been proven and labels it research. While technically true – most academic writing falls under the broad category of research – that’s not the same as evidence from a well-designed classroom experiment. And she tends not to factor in evidence that runs counter to her views or adjust her views as new studies arise. Some of her numerical claims seem grandiose. For example, she says one of her 18-lesson summer courses raised achievement by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/pd/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2.8 years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People have raised questions for a long time about the rigor and the care in which Jo makes claims related to both her own research and others,” said Jon Star, a professor of math education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Star says many other education researchers have done exactly the same, and the “liberties” Boaler takes are common in the field. “That’s not to suggest that taking these liberties is okay,” Star said, “but she is being called out for it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler is getting more scrutiny than her colleagues, he said, because she’s influential, has a large following of devoted teachers and has been involved in policy changes at schools. Many other scholars of math education share Boaler’s views. But Boaler has become the public face of nontraditional teaching ideas in math. And in today’s polarized political climate, that’s a dangerous public face to be.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The citation controversy reflects bigger issues with the state of education research. It’s often not as precise as the hard sciences or even social sciences like economics. Academic experts are prone to make wide, sweeping statements. And there are too few studies in real classrooms or randomized controlled trials that could settle some of the big debates. Star argues that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubs.nctm.org/view/journals/jrme/49/1/article-p98.xml\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more replication studies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> could improve the quality of evidence for math instruction. We can’t know which teaching methods are most effective unless the method can be reproduced in different settings with different students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s also possible that more research may never settle these big math debates and we may continue to generate conflicting evidence. There’s the real possibility that traditional methods could be more effective for short-term achievement gains, while nontraditional methods might attract more students to the subject, and potentially lead to more creative problem solvers in the future. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even if \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://notepad.michaelpershan.com/youcubed-is-more-than-just-sloppy-about-research/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler is loose\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with the details of research studies, she could still be right about the big picture. Maybe advanced students would be better off slowing down on the current racetrack to calculus to learn math with more depth and breadth. Her fun, hands-on approach to math might spark just enough motivation to inspire more kids to do their homework. Might we trade off a bit of short-term math achievement for a greater good of a numerate, civic society?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her new book, “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/math-ish-jo-boaler?variant=41226038083618\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MATH-\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ish\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” Boaler is doubling down on her approach to math with a title that seems to encourage inexactitude. She argues that approaching a problem in a “math-ish” way gives students the freedom to take a guess and make mistakes, to step back and think rather than jumping to numerical calculations. Boaler says she’s hearing from teachers that “ish” is far more fun than making estimates.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m hoping this book is going to be my salvation,” she said, “that I have something exciting to do and focus on and not focus on the thousands of abusive messages I’m getting.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-stanfords-jo-boaler-book-math-ish-critics/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jo Boaler\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proof Points newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":2235,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":32},"modified":1713883570,"excerpt":"With a new book coming out in May, titled “MATH-ish,” Jo Boaler is fighting back against her critics in the current math wars.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"With a new book coming out in May, titled “MATH-ish,” Jo Boaler is fighting back against her critics in the current math wars.","socialDescription":"With a new book coming out in May, titled “MATH-ish,” Jo Boaler is fighting back against her critics in the current math wars.","title":"Stanford’s Jo Boaler Discusses Her New Book ‘MATH-ish’ and Takes On Her Critics | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Stanford’s Jo Boaler Discusses Her New Book ‘MATH-ish’ and Takes On Her Critics","datePublished":"2024-04-22T03:00:42-07:00","dateModified":"2024-04-23T07:46:10-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"stanfords-jo-boaler-talks-about-her-new-book-math-ish-and-takes-on-her-critics","status":"publish","nprByline":"Jill Barshay, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","sticky":false,"showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/63615/stanfords-jo-boaler-talks-about-her-new-book-math-ish-and-takes-on-her-critics","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jo Boaler is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education with a devoted following of teachers who cheer her call to make math education more exciting. But despite all her fans, she has sparked controversy at nearly every stage of her career. Critics say she misrepresents research to make her case and her ideas actually impede students. Now, with a new book coming out in May, provocatively titled “MATH-\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ish\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” Boaler is fighting back. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is a whole effort to shut me down, my research and my writing,” said Boaler. “I see it as a form of knowledge suppression.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Academic fights usually don’t make it beyond the ivory tower. But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. In the last few months, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2024/03/22/opinion/dei-math-ed-prof-who-helped-get-algebra-banned-in-frisco-is-accused-of-faulty-research/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tabloids\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.piratewires.com/p/jo-boaler-misrepresented-citations\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">conservative publications\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have turned Boaler into something of an education villain who’s captured the attention of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1770663755149656458\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elon Musk\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1770659605774786758\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Texas Sen. Ted Cruz\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on social media. Critics have even questioned Boaler’s association with a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.piratewires.com/p/yolande-beckles-scammer-california-education-system\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">former reality tv star\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I am the next target,” Boaler said, describing the death threats and abusive email she’s been receiving.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This controversy matters on a much larger level because there is a legitimate debate about how math should be taught in American schools. Cognitive science research suggests that students need a lot of practice and memorization to master math. And once students achieve success through practice, this success will motivate them to learn and enjoy math. In other words, success increases motivation at least as much as motivation produces success. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet, from Boaler’s perspective, too many students feel like failures in math class and hate the subject. That leaves us with millions of Americans who are innumerate. Nearly 2 out of every 5 eighth graders don’t even have the most basic math skills, according to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/mathematics/2022/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (NAEP). On the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-there-is-a-worldwide-problem-in-math-and-its-not-just-about-the-pandemic/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler draws upon a different body of research about student motivation that looks at the root causes of why students don’t like math based on surveys and interviews. Students who are tracked into low-level classes feel discouraged. Struggling math students often describe feelings of anxiety from timed tests. Many students express frustration that math is just a collection of meaningless procedures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler seeks to fix these root causes. She advocates for ending tracking by ability in math classes, getting rid of timed tests and starting with conceptual understanding before introducing procedures. Most importantly, she wants to elevate the work that students tackle in math classes with more interesting questions that spark genuine curiosity and encourage students to think and wonder. Her goal is to expose students to the beauty of mathematical thinking as mathematicians enjoy the subject. Whether students actually learn more math the Boaler way is where this dispute centers. In other words, how strong is the evidence base?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The latest battle over Boaler’s work began with an anonymous complaint published in March by the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://freebeacon.com/california/san-francisco-cited-this-professor-to-end-8th-grade-algebra-her-research-had-reckless-disregard-for-accuracy-complaint-alleges/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Free Beacon\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the same conservative website that first surfaced plagiarism accusations against Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University. The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.proton.me/urls/P7BYBG7E6R#VCfOpReAcH9F\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">complaint\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> accuses Boaler of a “reckless disregard for accuracy” by misrepresenting research citations 52 times and asks Stanford to discipline Boaler, a full professor with an endowed chair. Stanford has said it’s reviewing the complaint and hasn’t decided whether to open an investigation, according to news reports. Boaler \u003ca href=\"https://joboaler.people.stanford.edu/\">stands by her research\u003c/a> (other than one citation that she says has been fixed) and calls the anonymous complaint “bogus.” \u003cspan style=\"color: #111111;font-family: Tiempos,Georgia,serif;font-size: medium\">(\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #111111;font-family: Tiempos,Georgia,serif;font-size: medium\">\u003ci>UPDATE: The Hechinger Report learned after this article was published that Stanford has decided \u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/7e_rCXDM32FOJLk3SkNtc7?domain=stanforddaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Tiempos,Georgia,serif;font-size: medium\">\u003ci>not to open an investigation\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"color: #111111;font-family: Tiempos,Georgia,serif;font-size: medium\">\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #111111;font-family: Tiempos,Georgia,serif;font-size: medium\">)\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They haven’t even got the courage to put their name on accusations like this,” Boaler said. “That tells us something.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler first drew fire from critics in 2005, when she presented new \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nrich.maths.org/content/id/7011/nrich%20paper.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research claiming that students at a low-income school\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who were behind grade level had outperformed students at higher achieving schools when they were taught in classrooms that combined students of different math achievement levels. The supposed secret sauce was an unusual curriculum that emphasized group work and de-emphasized lectures. Critics disparaged the findings and hounded her to release her data. Math professors at Stanford and Cal State University \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Articles/v8n1.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">re-crunched the numbers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and declared they’d found the opposite result.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler, who is originally from England, retreated to an academic post back in the U.K., but returned to Stanford in 2010 with a fighting spirit. She had written a book, “What’s Math Got to Do with It?: How Parents and Teachers Can Help Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject,” which explained to a general audience why challenging, open-ended problems would help more children to embrace math and how the current approach of boring drills and formulas was turning too many kids off. Teachers loved it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler accused her earlier critics of academic \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/15/stanford-professor-goes-public-attacks-over-her-math-education-research\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bullying and harassment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But she didn’t address their legitimate research questions. Instead, she focused on changing classrooms. Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. Building on this new fan base, she founded a nonprofit organization at Stanford called youcubed to train teachers, conduct research and spread her gospel. Boaler says a half million teachers now visit youcubed’s website each month.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. She lamented that too many low-income Black and Hispanic children were stuck in discouraging, low-level math classes. She advocated for change. In 2014, San Francisco \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/19433?view_id=47&redirect=true\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">heeded that call\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade. Parents, especially in the city’s large Asian community, protested that delaying algebra was holding their children back. Without starting algebra in middle school, it was difficult to progress to high school calculus, an important course for college applications. Parents blamed Boaler, who applauded San Francisco for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-how-one-city-got-math-right/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">getting math right\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Ten years later, the city is slated to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2024-02-14-sfusd-offer-algebra-1-8th-grade-beginning-2024-25-school-year#:~:text=San%20Francisco%20(February%2014%2C%202024,at%20its%20regular%20meeting%20Tuesday.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reinstate algebra for eighth graders\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> this fall. Boaler denies any involvement in the unpopular San Francisco reforms.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before that math experiment unraveled in San Francisco, California education policymakers tapped Boaler to be one of the lead writers of a new math framework, which would guide math instruction throughout the state. The first draft discouraged tracking children into separate math classes by achievement levels, and proposed delaying algebra until high school. It emphasized “social justice” and suggested that students could take data science instead of advanced algebra in high school. Traditional math proponents worried that the document would water down math instruction in California, hinder advanced students and make it harder to pursue STEM careers. And they were concerned that California’s proposed reforms could spread across the nation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the battle to quash the framework, critics attacked Boaler for trying to institute “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://blog.independent.org/2023/07/10/californias-flawed-k-12-math-framework/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">woke\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” mathematics. The battle became personal, with some criticizing her \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oxnardsd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&ModuleInstanceID=16044&ViewID=DEDCCD34-7C24-4AF2-812A-33C0075398BC&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=25705&PageID=10939&Tag=&Comments=true\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$5,000-an-hour\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> consulting and speaking fees at public schools while sending her own children to private school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critics also dug into the weeds of the framework document, which is how this also became a research story. A Stanford mathematics professor catalogued a list of what he saw as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/publiccommentsonthecmf/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research misrepresentations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Those citations, together with additional characterizations of research findings throughout Boaler’s writings, eventually grew into the anonymous complaint that’s now at Stanford.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the time the most recent complaint against Boaler was lodged, the framework had already been revised in substantial ways. Boaler’s critics had arguably won their main policy battles. College-bound students still need the traditional course sequence and cannot substitute data science for advanced algebra. California’s middle schools will continue to have the option to track children into separate classes and start algebra in eighth grade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the attacks on Boaler continue. In addition to seeking sanctions from Stanford, her anonymous critics have asked academic journals to pull down her papers, according to Boaler. They’ve written to conference organizers to stop Boaler from speaking and, she says, they’ve told her funders to stop giving money to her. At least one, the Valhalla Foundation, the family foundation of billionaire Scott Cook (co-founder of the software giant Intuit), stopped funding youcubed in 2024. In 2022 and 2023, it gave Boaler’s organization more than $560,000. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler sees the continued salvos against her as part of the larger right-wing attack on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI. She also sees a misogynistic pattern of taking down women who have power in education, such as Claudine Gay. “You’re basically hung, drawn and quartered by the court of Twitter,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From my perch as a journalist who covers education research, I see that Boaler has a tendency to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielwillingham.com/daniel-willingham-science-and-education-blog/march-13th-2019\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">overstate the implications\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of a narrow study. Sometimes she cites a theory that’s been written about in an academic journal but hasn’t been proven and labels it research. While technically true – most academic writing falls under the broad category of research – that’s not the same as evidence from a well-designed classroom experiment. And she tends not to factor in evidence that runs counter to her views or adjust her views as new studies arise. Some of her numerical claims seem grandiose. For example, she says one of her 18-lesson summer courses raised achievement by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/pd/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2.8 years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People have raised questions for a long time about the rigor and the care in which Jo makes claims related to both her own research and others,” said Jon Star, a professor of math education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Star says many other education researchers have done exactly the same, and the “liberties” Boaler takes are common in the field. “That’s not to suggest that taking these liberties is okay,” Star said, “but she is being called out for it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler is getting more scrutiny than her colleagues, he said, because she’s influential, has a large following of devoted teachers and has been involved in policy changes at schools. Many other scholars of math education share Boaler’s views. But Boaler has become the public face of nontraditional teaching ideas in math. And in today’s polarized political climate, that’s a dangerous public face to be.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The citation controversy reflects bigger issues with the state of education research. It’s often not as precise as the hard sciences or even social sciences like economics. Academic experts are prone to make wide, sweeping statements. And there are too few studies in real classrooms or randomized controlled trials that could settle some of the big debates. Star argues that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubs.nctm.org/view/journals/jrme/49/1/article-p98.xml\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more replication studies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> could improve the quality of evidence for math instruction. We can’t know which teaching methods are most effective unless the method can be reproduced in different settings with different students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s also possible that more research may never settle these big math debates and we may continue to generate conflicting evidence. There’s the real possibility that traditional methods could be more effective for short-term achievement gains, while nontraditional methods might attract more students to the subject, and potentially lead to more creative problem solvers in the future. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even if \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://notepad.michaelpershan.com/youcubed-is-more-than-just-sloppy-about-research/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boaler is loose\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with the details of research studies, she could still be right about the big picture. Maybe advanced students would be better off slowing down on the current racetrack to calculus to learn math with more depth and breadth. Her fun, hands-on approach to math might spark just enough motivation to inspire more kids to do their homework. Might we trade off a bit of short-term math achievement for a greater good of a numerate, civic society?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her new book, “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/math-ish-jo-boaler?variant=41226038083618\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MATH-\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ish\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” Boaler is doubling down on her approach to math with a title that seems to encourage inexactitude. She argues that approaching a problem in a “math-ish” way gives students the freedom to take a guess and make mistakes, to step back and think rather than jumping to numerical calculations. Boaler says she’s hearing from teachers that “ish” is far more fun than making estimates.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m hoping this book is going to be my salvation,” she said, “that I have something exciting to do and focus on and not focus on the thousands of abusive messages I’m getting.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-stanfords-jo-boaler-book-math-ish-critics/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jo Boaler\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proof Points newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/63615/stanfords-jo-boaler-talks-about-her-new-book-math-ish-and-takes-on-her-critics","authors":["byline_mindshift_63615"],"categories":["mindshift_21504"],"tags":["mindshift_21341","mindshift_20943","mindshift_392","mindshift_20893","mindshift_20841"],"featImg":"mindshift_63616","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_63585":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_63585","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"63585","score":null,"sort":[1713348023000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1713348023,"format":"standard","title":"Eliminating Advanced Math ‘Tracks’ Often Prompts Outrage. Some Districts Buck the Trend","headTitle":"Eliminating Advanced Math ‘Tracks’ Often Prompts Outrage. Some Districts Buck the Trend | KQED","content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last April, an email went out to families in the Troy School District outside Detroit. Signed by unnamed “concerned Troy parents,” it said that a district proposal for its middle schools to end “basic” and “honors” math classes for sixth and seventh graders was part of a longer-term district plan to completely abolish honors classes in all of its schools.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Superintendent Richard Machesky and his team were stunned. The district was indeed proposing to merge separate sixth- and seventh-grade math tracks into what it said would be a single, rigorous pathway emphasizing pre-algebra skills. In eighth grade, students could opt for Eighth Grade Math or Algebra I. But the district had no plans for changes to other grades, much less to do away with high school honors classes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Machesky and a district team of curriculum specialists and math teachers had unveiled the plan during a series of meetings with parents of current and incoming middle schoolers. Parents had largely expressed support, said Machesky: “We thought we were hitting the mark.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No matter. The email blast spurred opponents to show up at a board workshop and a town hall. A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/oppose-the-removal-of-honors-classes-in-the-troy-school-district\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">petition\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> demanding that the plan be scrapped got more than 3,000 signatures. At one packed board meeting, more than 40 people spoke, nearly all opposed, and the comments got personal. “Are you all on drugs?” parent Andrew Sosnoski asked the members.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63058/how-one-district-has-diversified-its-advanced-math-classes-without-the-controversy\">skirmish over “detracking,”\u003c/a> or eliminating the sorting of kids by perceived ability into separate math classes. Since the mid-1980s, some education experts have supported such moves, citing \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180816081454.htm#:~:text=%22Educational%20tracking%20creates%20artificial%20inequalities%20among%20students.%22%20ScienceDaily\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research\u003c/span>\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1250375.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">showing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that tracking primarily serves as a marker of race or class, as Black and Hispanic students, and those from lower-income families, are steered into lower-track classes at disproportionate rates. In the last 15 years, a handful of school districts around the country have eliminated some tracked math classes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While there’s been ample \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/does-detracking-promote-educational-equity/#footnote1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on tracking’s negative effects, studies of positive effects resulting from detracking are scant. A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1756-5391.2009.01032.x\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2009 summary\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of 15 studies from 1972 to 2006 concluded that detracking improved academic outcomes for lower-ability students, but had \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1756-5391.2009.01032.x\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no effect\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on average and high-ability students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposals to curtail tracking often draw \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-county-schools-math-classes-tracking/2021/04/29/197aa29c-a7a2-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fiery opposition\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, sometimes scuttling the efforts. The San Francisco Unified School District, which in 2014 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2023-03-20-sfusd-leaders-work-researchers-examine-math-programming\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">detracked\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> math through ninth\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">grade, recently \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2024-03-15-sfusd-announces-pilot-schools-algebra-1-8th-grade-2024-25#:~:text=The%20San%20Francisco%20Board%20of,the%202024%2D25%20school%20year\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">announced\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that it’s testing the reintroduction of a tracked system, following a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/sf-parents-sue-local-school-202200892.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lawsuit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from a group of parents who alleged that detracking hurt student achievement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63586\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boulan Park Middle School teacher Jordan Baines gives tips to help her students figure out a math problem. \u003ccite>(Amanda J. Cain for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pushback, often from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/the-detracking-movement/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">parents\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nassp.org/tracking-and-ability-grouping-in-middle-level-and-high-schools/#:~:text=Parents%20of%20high%2Dtrack%20students,make%20teaching%20admittedly%20more%20challenging\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">high-track students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, is part of why tracking, especially in math, remains common. In a 2023 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2836-2.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of middle-school principals by the Rand Corporation, 39% said their schools group students into separate classes based on achievement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But some places have changed their math classes with minimal backlash, and also ensured course rigor and improved academic outcomes. That’s often because they moved slowly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evanston Township High School, in Illinois, started detracking in 2010, collapsing several levels in two freshman-year subjects — humanities and biology — into one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, for six years, the school made no other changes. That allowed leaders to work out the kinks and look at the data to make sure there were no negative effects on achievement, said Pete Bavis, the district’s assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers liked the mixed-ability classes and asked to expand them to other subjects. In 2017 the school began detracking sophomore and junior English, geometry and Algebra II.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At South Side Middle School and High School on Long Island, detracking went even slower, taking 17 years to fully roll out between 1989 and 2006.During that period, the proportion of students earning New York’s higher-level Regents diploma \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://includenyc.org/help-center/resources/nyc-high-school-diploma-options/#:~:text=Graduating%20with%20a%20high%20school,and%20High%20School%20Equivalency%20Diplomas\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">climbed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 58% in 1989 to 97% by 2005. “I always told parents, when we started moving this through the high school, ‘Look, if this isn’t working, I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to hurt your kid,’” said former South Side High Principal Carol Burris.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those slow rollouts contrast with what happened in the Shaker Heights City School District in Ohio in 2020. That summer, school leaders needed to simplify schedules to accommodate a mix of online and onsite students because of the pandemic. They saw an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/16/shaker-heights-academic-tracking-classes-racial-equity/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">opening\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to do something that had long been in the district’s strategic plan: end tracking in most fifth- through ninth-grade subjects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But teachers complained last \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://shakerite.com/campus-and-city/investigations/we-did-it-the-wrong-way/10/2023/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spring\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that it had gone too quickly, saying that they didn’t get enough training on teaching mixed classrooms, and that course rigor has suffered. Even supporters of detracking suggested it had happened so fast that the district couldn’t lay the groundwork with parents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shaker Heights Superintendent David Glasner said he understands those concerns. But he said he also heard from parents, students and instructional leaders who say they’re glad the district “ripped the Band-Aid off.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Troy, despite the pushback from parents, the school board \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2023/05/26/troy-school-district-honors-classes-remove-math/70228665007/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">voted 6-1\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the change, noting that the district had spent four years studying options and that teachers and outside experts largely supported the plan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Machesky said if he had it to do over, he’d communicate with parents earlier. The anonymous email took advantage of an information void: The district had communicated the proposal only to parents of current and upcoming middle schoolers. Most who opposed it had younger kids, he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63590\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Boulan Park Middle School in Troy, Michigan, work on a math problem. \u003ccite>(Amanda J. Cain for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leaders in Evanston and South Side both say they also framed detracking as a way to create more opportunities for all students. As part of getting rid of tracks, Evanston created an “earned honors” system. All students enroll in the same classes, but they can opt into honors credit — which boosts their class grade by a half-point, akin to extra credit — if they take and do well on additional assessments or complete additional projects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School leaders in South Side also ensured that detracked classes remained as challenging as the higher-level classes had been previously, Burris said. To make sure students succeeded, the school arranged for teachers to tutor struggling students in a support class held two or three times a week and in a half-hour period before school, changing the bus schedules to make that work. Teachers also created optional activities for each lesson that would push higher-achieving students if they mastered the material being covered.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You have to make sure you’re not taking something away from anyone,” said Burris.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To prepare for pushback, Evanston also formed a “rapid-response team” that answered parent questions about the new system within 24 hours and developed dozens of pages of frequently updated FAQs. That took the pressure off teachers, letting them focus on the classroom, said math department chair Dale Leibforth. By the end of the first year of detracking, the school had gotten just three complaints, all requests for fixes to narrow technical problems rather than wholesale critiques, said Bavis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We imagined a catastrophe,” he said. “We asked, ‘what could go wrong?’” and mapped how to handle each scenario.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Troy School District in Michigan has moved to end “basic” and “honors” math classes for sixth and seventh graders. \u003ccite>(Amanda J. Cain for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response to continued critiques of its detracking effort, last fall Shaker Heights pioneered another idea: an evening immersion experience that lets parents sit through detracked classes, followed by questions and answers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parents were respectful but probing: How do teachers work together to make the new system work? Do kids know when they’re grouped with others who are struggling in a skill? Are the books we worked with really at sixth-grade level? While there’s no data on the session’s effects, Glasner says they “absolutely did move the needle” on community opinion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research from the Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, suggests that districts should focus on how detracking helps all students, rather than emphasizing that the efforts are aimed to advance equity and benefit students in lower tracks, said senior fellow Halley Potter. That approach gives parents of higher-track kids the idea that their own child’s academics are being sacrificed to help others.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That fits with what Machesky thinks happened last spring in Troy. “We kind of got caught up with the equity arguments that were raging in districts nationally at the time,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After last May’s board vote, opponents launched a recall petition against three board members who’d voted in favor of the change. To get on the ballot, it needed 8,000 signatures but got \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2023/08/15/recall-effort-falls-short-in-troy/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fewer than half\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since then, the opposition there has gone silent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last fall the district held “math nights” to talk about the new system and let parents ask questions. The students have settled in. “I have received zero negative communication from parents — no emails, no phone calls — zero,” said Machesky.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/eliminating-advanced-math-often-prompts-outrage-some-districts-buck-the-trend/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">detracking\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was produced by\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1644,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":33},"modified":1713296397,"excerpt":"Districts that try to ‘detrack’ — or stop sorting students by perceived ability — often face parental pushback. But districts that went slowly fared better.","headData":{"twImgId":"mindshift_63588","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"mindshift_63588","twDescription":"","description":"Districts that try to ‘detrack’ — or stop sorting students by perceived ability — often face parental pushback. But districts that went slowly fared better.","socialDescription":"Districts that try to ‘detrack’ — or stop sorting students by perceived ability — often face parental pushback. But districts that went slowly fared better.","title":"Eliminating Advanced Math ‘Tracks’ Often Prompts Outrage. Some Districts Buck the Trend | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Eliminating Advanced Math ‘Tracks’ Often Prompts Outrage. Some Districts Buck the Trend","datePublished":"2024-04-17T03:00:23-07:00","dateModified":"2024-04-16T12:39:57-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"eliminating-advanced-math-tracks-often-prompts-outrage-some-districts-buck-the-trend","status":"publish","nprByline":"Steven Yoder, The Hechinger Report","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","sticky":false,"showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/63585/eliminating-advanced-math-tracks-often-prompts-outrage-some-districts-buck-the-trend","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last April, an email went out to families in the Troy School District outside Detroit. Signed by unnamed “concerned Troy parents,” it said that a district proposal for its middle schools to end “basic” and “honors” math classes for sixth and seventh graders was part of a longer-term district plan to completely abolish honors classes in all of its schools.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Superintendent Richard Machesky and his team were stunned. The district was indeed proposing to merge separate sixth- and seventh-grade math tracks into what it said would be a single, rigorous pathway emphasizing pre-algebra skills. In eighth grade, students could opt for Eighth Grade Math or Algebra I. But the district had no plans for changes to other grades, much less to do away with high school honors classes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Machesky and a district team of curriculum specialists and math teachers had unveiled the plan during a series of meetings with parents of current and incoming middle schoolers. Parents had largely expressed support, said Machesky: “We thought we were hitting the mark.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No matter. The email blast spurred opponents to show up at a board workshop and a town hall. A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/oppose-the-removal-of-honors-classes-in-the-troy-school-district\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">petition\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> demanding that the plan be scrapped got more than 3,000 signatures. At one packed board meeting, more than 40 people spoke, nearly all opposed, and the comments got personal. “Are you all on drugs?” parent Andrew Sosnoski asked the members.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63058/how-one-district-has-diversified-its-advanced-math-classes-without-the-controversy\">skirmish over “detracking,”\u003c/a> or eliminating the sorting of kids by perceived ability into separate math classes. Since the mid-1980s, some education experts have supported such moves, citing \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180816081454.htm#:~:text=%22Educational%20tracking%20creates%20artificial%20inequalities%20among%20students.%22%20ScienceDaily\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research\u003c/span>\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1250375.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">showing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that tracking primarily serves as a marker of race or class, as Black and Hispanic students, and those from lower-income families, are steered into lower-track classes at disproportionate rates. In the last 15 years, a handful of school districts around the country have eliminated some tracked math classes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While there’s been ample \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/does-detracking-promote-educational-equity/#footnote1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on tracking’s negative effects, studies of positive effects resulting from detracking are scant. A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1756-5391.2009.01032.x\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2009 summary\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of 15 studies from 1972 to 2006 concluded that detracking improved academic outcomes for lower-ability students, but had \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1756-5391.2009.01032.x\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no effect\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on average and high-ability students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposals to curtail tracking often draw \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-county-schools-math-classes-tracking/2021/04/29/197aa29c-a7a2-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fiery opposition\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, sometimes scuttling the efforts. The San Francisco Unified School District, which in 2014 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2023-03-20-sfusd-leaders-work-researchers-examine-math-programming\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">detracked\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> math through ninth\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">grade, recently \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2024-03-15-sfusd-announces-pilot-schools-algebra-1-8th-grade-2024-25#:~:text=The%20San%20Francisco%20Board%20of,the%202024%2D25%20school%20year\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">announced\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that it’s testing the reintroduction of a tracked system, following a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/sf-parents-sue-local-school-202200892.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lawsuit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from a group of parents who alleged that detracking hurt student achievement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63586\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boulan Park Middle School teacher Jordan Baines gives tips to help her students figure out a math problem. \u003ccite>(Amanda J. Cain for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pushback, often from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/the-detracking-movement/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">parents\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nassp.org/tracking-and-ability-grouping-in-middle-level-and-high-schools/#:~:text=Parents%20of%20high%2Dtrack%20students,make%20teaching%20admittedly%20more%20challenging\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">high-track students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, is part of why tracking, especially in math, remains common. In a 2023 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2836-2.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of middle-school principals by the Rand Corporation, 39% said their schools group students into separate classes based on achievement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But some places have changed their math classes with minimal backlash, and also ensured course rigor and improved academic outcomes. That’s often because they moved slowly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evanston Township High School, in Illinois, started detracking in 2010, collapsing several levels in two freshman-year subjects — humanities and biology — into one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, for six years, the school made no other changes. That allowed leaders to work out the kinks and look at the data to make sure there were no negative effects on achievement, said Pete Bavis, the district’s assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers liked the mixed-ability classes and asked to expand them to other subjects. In 2017 the school began detracking sophomore and junior English, geometry and Algebra II.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At South Side Middle School and High School on Long Island, detracking went even slower, taking 17 years to fully roll out between 1989 and 2006.During that period, the proportion of students earning New York’s higher-level Regents diploma \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://includenyc.org/help-center/resources/nyc-high-school-diploma-options/#:~:text=Graduating%20with%20a%20high%20school,and%20High%20School%20Equivalency%20Diplomas\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">climbed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 58% in 1989 to 97% by 2005. “I always told parents, when we started moving this through the high school, ‘Look, if this isn’t working, I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to hurt your kid,’” said former South Side High Principal Carol Burris.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those slow rollouts contrast with what happened in the Shaker Heights City School District in Ohio in 2020. That summer, school leaders needed to simplify schedules to accommodate a mix of online and onsite students because of the pandemic. They saw an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/16/shaker-heights-academic-tracking-classes-racial-equity/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">opening\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to do something that had long been in the district’s strategic plan: end tracking in most fifth- through ninth-grade subjects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But teachers complained last \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://shakerite.com/campus-and-city/investigations/we-did-it-the-wrong-way/10/2023/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spring\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that it had gone too quickly, saying that they didn’t get enough training on teaching mixed classrooms, and that course rigor has suffered. Even supporters of detracking suggested it had happened so fast that the district couldn’t lay the groundwork with parents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shaker Heights Superintendent David Glasner said he understands those concerns. But he said he also heard from parents, students and instructional leaders who say they’re glad the district “ripped the Band-Aid off.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Troy, despite the pushback from parents, the school board \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2023/05/26/troy-school-district-honors-classes-remove-math/70228665007/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">voted 6-1\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the change, noting that the district had spent four years studying options and that teachers and outside experts largely supported the plan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Machesky said if he had it to do over, he’d communicate with parents earlier. The anonymous email took advantage of an information void: The district had communicated the proposal only to parents of current and upcoming middle schoolers. Most who opposed it had younger kids, he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63590\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Boulan Park Middle School in Troy, Michigan, work on a math problem. \u003ccite>(Amanda J. Cain for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leaders in Evanston and South Side both say they also framed detracking as a way to create more opportunities for all students. As part of getting rid of tracks, Evanston created an “earned honors” system. All students enroll in the same classes, but they can opt into honors credit — which boosts their class grade by a half-point, akin to extra credit — if they take and do well on additional assessments or complete additional projects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School leaders in South Side also ensured that detracked classes remained as challenging as the higher-level classes had been previously, Burris said. To make sure students succeeded, the school arranged for teachers to tutor struggling students in a support class held two or three times a week and in a half-hour period before school, changing the bus schedules to make that work. Teachers also created optional activities for each lesson that would push higher-achieving students if they mastered the material being covered.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You have to make sure you’re not taking something away from anyone,” said Burris.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To prepare for pushback, Evanston also formed a “rapid-response team” that answered parent questions about the new system within 24 hours and developed dozens of pages of frequently updated FAQs. That took the pressure off teachers, letting them focus on the classroom, said math department chair Dale Leibforth. By the end of the first year of detracking, the school had gotten just three complaints, all requests for fixes to narrow technical problems rather than wholesale critiques, said Bavis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We imagined a catastrophe,” he said. “We asked, ‘what could go wrong?’” and mapped how to handle each scenario.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/04/20240321_hechingerreport_math10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Troy School District in Michigan has moved to end “basic” and “honors” math classes for sixth and seventh graders. \u003ccite>(Amanda J. Cain for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response to continued critiques of its detracking effort, last fall Shaker Heights pioneered another idea: an evening immersion experience that lets parents sit through detracked classes, followed by questions and answers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parents were respectful but probing: How do teachers work together to make the new system work? Do kids know when they’re grouped with others who are struggling in a skill? Are the books we worked with really at sixth-grade level? While there’s no data on the session’s effects, Glasner says they “absolutely did move the needle” on community opinion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research from the Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, suggests that districts should focus on how detracking helps all students, rather than emphasizing that the efforts are aimed to advance equity and benefit students in lower tracks, said senior fellow Halley Potter. That approach gives parents of higher-track kids the idea that their own child’s academics are being sacrificed to help others.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That fits with what Machesky thinks happened last spring in Troy. “We kind of got caught up with the equity arguments that were raging in districts nationally at the time,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After last May’s board vote, opponents launched a recall petition against three board members who’d voted in favor of the change. To get on the ballot, it needed 8,000 signatures but got \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2023/08/15/recall-effort-falls-short-in-troy/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fewer than half\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since then, the opposition there has gone silent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last fall the district held “math nights” to talk about the new system and let parents ask questions. The students have settled in. “I have received zero negative communication from parents — no emails, no phone calls — zero,” said Machesky.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/eliminating-advanced-math-often-prompts-outrage-some-districts-buck-the-trend/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">detracking\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was produced by\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/63585/eliminating-advanced-math-tracks-often-prompts-outrage-some-districts-buck-the-trend","authors":["byline_mindshift_63585"],"categories":["mindshift_21579"],"tags":["mindshift_392","mindshift_20841"],"featImg":"mindshift_63590","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_63375":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_63375","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"63375","score":null,"sort":[1711360830000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1711360830,"format":"standard","title":"How COVID-19 Narrowed the STEM Pipeline","headTitle":"How COVID-19 Narrowed the STEM Pipeline | KQED","content":"\u003cp class=\"p7\">Universities, philanthropies and even the U.S. government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Many business sectors, from high tech to manufacturing, are plagued with \u003ca href=\"https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/understanding-the-gaps-in-the-us-stem-labor-market/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">shortages of workers with technical skills\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. In New York City, where I live, the subway is frequently plastered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-expands-advertising-new-york-citys-grand-central-station-and-metro-north-rail-lines\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">advertisements\u003c/span>\u003c/a> carrying the message that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DKThomp/status/1769363055341604947?s=20\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">STEM fields pay well\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. But studying STEM requires more than an interest in science or a desire to make good money. Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">That’s why it’s concerning that high-achieving students, who’ve received less public attention than lower achieving students, were also set back by remote learning and pandemic uncertainty. Fewer students with math skills shrinks the pool of people who are likely to cultivate an expertise in science, engineering and technology a decade from now. In other words, the STEM pipeline – a metaphor for the development of future scientists, engineers and other high tech workers – likely starts with a narrower funnel in the post-pandemic era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The stakes are high not only for Gen Z, as they age out of school and enter the workforce, but also for the future of the U.S. economy, which needs skilled scientists and engineers to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The leading indicators of STEM troubles ahead are apparent within the 2022 scores from a national test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The immediate headlines from that first post-pandemic test focused on the fact that two decades of academic progress had been suddenly erased. Low-achieving children, who tend to be poor, had lost the most ground. An alarming number of American children – as high as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/mathematics/nation/achievement/?grade=8\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">38%\u003c/span>\u003c/a> of eighth graders – were functioning below the “basic” level in math, meaning that they didn’t have even the most rudimentary math skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Statisticians at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) have continued to dig into the 2022 data, and they’ve been also turning their attention to students at the top. These children are on grade level, but the eighth grade NAEP assessment shows that far fewer of them are hitting an advanced performance level, or even a proficient one. Math scores among top performers dropped as steeply as scores did among low performers. Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">We don’t have data for other private schools because they have refused to participate in NAEP testing, but the eighth grade math declines among both high-achieving public school and Catholic school students are not good signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">NAEP tests reading and math in both fourth and eighth grades every two years in order to track educational progress. It’s one of the only tests that can be used for comparisons across states and generations. More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/mathematics/?grade=4\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">400,000 students\u003c/span>\u003c/a> are specially selected to represent the regions and demographic characteristics of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Among the four NAEP tests, eighth grade math showed the sharpest pandemic drop. Math took a bigger hit than reading because kids can still read at home, while math is something that students primarily learn at school. If you didn’t read “The Hobbit” in your seventh grade English class because you were out sick with Covid, you can still be a good lifelong reader But not getting enough practice with rates, ratios and percentages in middle school can derail someone who might have otherwise excelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Why eighth grade math was hit harder than fourth grade math is a bit less obvious. One explanation is that the concepts that students need to learn are more difficult. Square roots and exponents are possibly more challenging to master than multiplication and division. And fewer parents are able to assist with homework as the math increases in complexity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Yet another explanation is a psychological one. These eighth graders were in sixth grade when the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020. This is a critical time in adolescent development when children are figuring out who they are and where they belong. A lot of this development occurs through social interaction. The isolation may have stunted psychological development and that ultimately affected motivation, study skills and the ability to delay gratification – all necessary to excel in math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Let’s walk through the numbers together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p8\">\u003cb>Highest achieving students lost ground in eighth grade math\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63378\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1-800x437.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1-800x437.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1-1020x557.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1-160x87.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1-768x419.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1.png 1410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NAEP Report Card Mathematics 2022\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">This \u003cspan class=\"s2\">chart\u003c/span> shows that the highest performing students, those at the top 10% and the top 25%, lost as much as low-achieving students at the bottom in eighth grade math. These eighth graders were in the spring of sixth grade when the pandemic hit in 2020, and it’s possible that they didn’t master important prerequisite skills, such as rates and ratios. These kids at the top are performing at grade level, but not as high performing as past eighth graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p8\">\u003cb>Fewer eighth grade students hit advanced and proficient levels\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1-800x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1-800x175.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1-1020x223.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1-160x35.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1-768x168.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1.png 1364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NAEP Report Card Mathematics 2022\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">This \u003cspan class=\"s2\">bar chart\u003c/span> shows that before the pandemic 10% of the nation’s eighth graders were performing at an advanced level in math. That fell to 7%. And the number of students deemed proficient in eighth grade math fell even more, from 24% to 20%. Before the pandemic, arguably, 34% of the eighth grade population was on track to pursue advanced math in high school and a future STEM career if they wanted one. After the pandemic in 2022, only 27% were well prepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Students at Catholic schools are generally much higher performing than students at public schools. In large part, that’s because of family income; wealthier students tend to have higher test scores than poorer students. Catholic school students tend to be wealthier; their families can afford private school tuition. In recent years, the Catholic Church has closed hundreds of schools that catered to low-income families, leaving a higher income population in its remaining classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\u003cb>Catholic schools outperformed public schools but also dropped \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63377\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image4.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image4-160x85.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image4-768x408.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NAEP Report Card Mathematics 2022\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">This \u003cspan class=\"s2\">chart\u003c/span> shows that Catholic school students, depicted by the diamonds, outperformed public school students, depicted by the circles, in eighth grade math. But it was still a sharp five-point decline in eighth grade math performance for Catholic school students, almost as large as the eight-point decline for public school students. Scores of white students at Catholic schools declined five points; scores of students at Catholic schools in the suburbs declined seven points. Almost a quarter of Catholic school students are now functioning below a basic level in math for their grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Despite the good academic reputation of Catholic schools and the praise Catholic schools received for resuming in-person instruction sooner, math scores suggest a problem. And it’s a problem that potentially extends to the whole private school universe, where \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cgc/private-school-enrollment\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">9% of students are enrolled\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, according to the most recently available data from 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">I talked with Ron Reynolds, the executive director of the California Association of Private School Organizations, who explained that not just Catholic schools, but also many other private schools suffered even if they hadn’t been closed for long. Reynolds said that private schools were still hit by illnesses, deaths and absences and that might have affected instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">“Private schools are tightly knit communities in which teachers tend to be more intertwined in the lives of the children and families they serve,” he said. “When you have a crisis, and so many people experiencing stress and loss, that can certainly impact the teacher in some significant ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Unfortunately, we don’t know exactly how other private schools fared during the pandemic because they have refused to participate in the NAEP tests for the past decade. Reynolds, who serves on the governing board that oversees the NAEP exam, has been trying to lobby more private schools to participate, but so far, to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Together private schools, selective public schools and affluent suburban schools have been important training grounds for the nation’s future scientists and engineers. Of course, it is possible that these high achieving students, now 10th graders, will catch up. Many of them are from wealthier families who can afford tutors, or attend well-resourced schools. But I am not seeing much evidence that schools have had the ability to think about the pipeline of advanced students when many students are so needy. And with post-pandemic grade inflation, students and parents may not be getting the signals they need to seek extra help independently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The administration of the 2024 NAEP test wrapped up in March, but results won’t be known for many months. I’ll be keeping an eye on eighth grade math and on SAT, ACT and Advanced Placement scores in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\u003ci>This story about\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-how-covid-narrowed-the-stem-pipeline/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>math scores\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/i>The Hechinger Report\u003ci>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Proof Points newsletter\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1543,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":2},"modified":1711667787,"excerpt":"Math scores declined for both Catholic school and high-achieving public school students in the 2022 NAEP test.","headData":{"twImgId":"mindshift_63384","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"mindshift_63384","twDescription":"","description":"Math scores declined for both Catholic school and high-achieving public school students in the 2022 NAEP test.","socialDescription":"Math scores declined for both Catholic school and high-achieving public school students in the 2022 NAEP test.","title":"How COVID-19 Narrowed the STEM Pipeline | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How COVID-19 Narrowed the STEM Pipeline","datePublished":"2024-03-25T03:00:30-07:00","dateModified":"2024-03-28T16:16:27-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-covid-19-narrowed-the-stem-pipeline","status":"publish","nprByline":"Jill Barshay, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","sticky":false,"showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/63375/how-covid-19-narrowed-the-stem-pipeline","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p7\">Universities, philanthropies and even the U.S. government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Many business sectors, from high tech to manufacturing, are plagued with \u003ca href=\"https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/understanding-the-gaps-in-the-us-stem-labor-market/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">shortages of workers with technical skills\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. In New York City, where I live, the subway is frequently plastered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-expands-advertising-new-york-citys-grand-central-station-and-metro-north-rail-lines\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">advertisements\u003c/span>\u003c/a> carrying the message that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DKThomp/status/1769363055341604947?s=20\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">STEM fields pay well\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. But studying STEM requires more than an interest in science or a desire to make good money. Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">That’s why it’s concerning that high-achieving students, who’ve received less public attention than lower achieving students, were also set back by remote learning and pandemic uncertainty. Fewer students with math skills shrinks the pool of people who are likely to cultivate an expertise in science, engineering and technology a decade from now. In other words, the STEM pipeline – a metaphor for the development of future scientists, engineers and other high tech workers – likely starts with a narrower funnel in the post-pandemic era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The stakes are high not only for Gen Z, as they age out of school and enter the workforce, but also for the future of the U.S. economy, which needs skilled scientists and engineers to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The leading indicators of STEM troubles ahead are apparent within the 2022 scores from a national test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The immediate headlines from that first post-pandemic test focused on the fact that two decades of academic progress had been suddenly erased. Low-achieving children, who tend to be poor, had lost the most ground. An alarming number of American children – as high as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/mathematics/nation/achievement/?grade=8\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">38%\u003c/span>\u003c/a> of eighth graders – were functioning below the “basic” level in math, meaning that they didn’t have even the most rudimentary math skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Statisticians at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) have continued to dig into the 2022 data, and they’ve been also turning their attention to students at the top. These children are on grade level, but the eighth grade NAEP assessment shows that far fewer of them are hitting an advanced performance level, or even a proficient one. Math scores among top performers dropped as steeply as scores did among low performers. Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">We don’t have data for other private schools because they have refused to participate in NAEP testing, but the eighth grade math declines among both high-achieving public school and Catholic school students are not good signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">NAEP tests reading and math in both fourth and eighth grades every two years in order to track educational progress. It’s one of the only tests that can be used for comparisons across states and generations. More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/mathematics/?grade=4\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">400,000 students\u003c/span>\u003c/a> are specially selected to represent the regions and demographic characteristics of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Among the four NAEP tests, eighth grade math showed the sharpest pandemic drop. Math took a bigger hit than reading because kids can still read at home, while math is something that students primarily learn at school. If you didn’t read “The Hobbit” in your seventh grade English class because you were out sick with Covid, you can still be a good lifelong reader But not getting enough practice with rates, ratios and percentages in middle school can derail someone who might have otherwise excelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Why eighth grade math was hit harder than fourth grade math is a bit less obvious. One explanation is that the concepts that students need to learn are more difficult. Square roots and exponents are possibly more challenging to master than multiplication and division. And fewer parents are able to assist with homework as the math increases in complexity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Yet another explanation is a psychological one. These eighth graders were in sixth grade when the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020. This is a critical time in adolescent development when children are figuring out who they are and where they belong. A lot of this development occurs through social interaction. The isolation may have stunted psychological development and that ultimately affected motivation, study skills and the ability to delay gratification – all necessary to excel in math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Let’s walk through the numbers together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p8\">\u003cb>Highest achieving students lost ground in eighth grade math\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63378\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1-800x437.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1-800x437.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1-1020x557.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1-160x87.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1-768x419.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image3-1.png 1410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NAEP Report Card Mathematics 2022\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">This \u003cspan class=\"s2\">chart\u003c/span> shows that the highest performing students, those at the top 10% and the top 25%, lost as much as low-achieving students at the bottom in eighth grade math. These eighth graders were in the spring of sixth grade when the pandemic hit in 2020, and it’s possible that they didn’t master important prerequisite skills, such as rates and ratios. These kids at the top are performing at grade level, but not as high performing as past eighth graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p8\">\u003cb>Fewer eighth grade students hit advanced and proficient levels\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1-800x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1-800x175.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1-1020x223.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1-160x35.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1-768x168.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image2-1.png 1364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NAEP Report Card Mathematics 2022\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">This \u003cspan class=\"s2\">bar chart\u003c/span> shows that before the pandemic 10% of the nation’s eighth graders were performing at an advanced level in math. That fell to 7%. And the number of students deemed proficient in eighth grade math fell even more, from 24% to 20%. Before the pandemic, arguably, 34% of the eighth grade population was on track to pursue advanced math in high school and a future STEM career if they wanted one. After the pandemic in 2022, only 27% were well prepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Students at Catholic schools are generally much higher performing than students at public schools. In large part, that’s because of family income; wealthier students tend to have higher test scores than poorer students. Catholic school students tend to be wealthier; their families can afford private school tuition. In recent years, the Catholic Church has closed hundreds of schools that catered to low-income families, leaving a higher income population in its remaining classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\u003cb>Catholic schools outperformed public schools but also dropped \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63377\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image4.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image4-160x85.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/03/image4-768x408.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NAEP Report Card Mathematics 2022\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">This \u003cspan class=\"s2\">chart\u003c/span> shows that Catholic school students, depicted by the diamonds, outperformed public school students, depicted by the circles, in eighth grade math. But it was still a sharp five-point decline in eighth grade math performance for Catholic school students, almost as large as the eight-point decline for public school students. Scores of white students at Catholic schools declined five points; scores of students at Catholic schools in the suburbs declined seven points. Almost a quarter of Catholic school students are now functioning below a basic level in math for their grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Despite the good academic reputation of Catholic schools and the praise Catholic schools received for resuming in-person instruction sooner, math scores suggest a problem. And it’s a problem that potentially extends to the whole private school universe, where \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cgc/private-school-enrollment\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">9% of students are enrolled\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, according to the most recently available data from 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">I talked with Ron Reynolds, the executive director of the California Association of Private School Organizations, who explained that not just Catholic schools, but also many other private schools suffered even if they hadn’t been closed for long. Reynolds said that private schools were still hit by illnesses, deaths and absences and that might have affected instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">“Private schools are tightly knit communities in which teachers tend to be more intertwined in the lives of the children and families they serve,” he said. “When you have a crisis, and so many people experiencing stress and loss, that can certainly impact the teacher in some significant ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Unfortunately, we don’t know exactly how other private schools fared during the pandemic because they have refused to participate in the NAEP tests for the past decade. Reynolds, who serves on the governing board that oversees the NAEP exam, has been trying to lobby more private schools to participate, but so far, to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Together private schools, selective public schools and affluent suburban schools have been important training grounds for the nation’s future scientists and engineers. Of course, it is possible that these high achieving students, now 10th graders, will catch up. Many of them are from wealthier families who can afford tutors, or attend well-resourced schools. But I am not seeing much evidence that schools have had the ability to think about the pipeline of advanced students when many students are so needy. And with post-pandemic grade inflation, students and parents may not be getting the signals they need to seek extra help independently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The administration of the 2024 NAEP test wrapped up in March, but results won’t be known for many months. I’ll be keeping an eye on eighth grade math and on SAT, ACT and Advanced Placement scores in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\u003ci>This story about\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-how-covid-narrowed-the-stem-pipeline/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>math scores\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/i>The Hechinger Report\u003ci>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Proof Points newsletter\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/63375/how-covid-19-narrowed-the-stem-pipeline","authors":["byline_mindshift_63375"],"categories":["mindshift_21345","mindshift_21504"],"tags":["mindshift_21343","mindshift_392","mindshift_93"],"featImg":"mindshift_63384","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_63278":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_63278","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"63278","score":null,"sort":[1709550029000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1709550029,"format":"standard","title":"The Surprising Effectiveness of Having Kids Study Why They Failed","headTitle":"The Surprising Effectiveness of Having Kids Study Why They Failed | KQED","content":"\u003cp class=\"p7\">For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small \u003ca href=\"https://www.columbiasecondary.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">public school affiliated with Columbia University\u003c/span>\u003c/a> agreed to stay late after school to study math. They were preparing for a critical test, the New York State’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning/testing/ny-state-high-school-regents-exams\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Regents examination\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in algebra. Half of the kids came from families that lived below the poverty line in Harlem and upper Manhattan. They attended a selective middle school and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. Many others were the children of Columbia professors, and none of them – rich or poor – really needed help passing the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">But researchers set up a review class to test a theory about the best way to study for a test. For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class. They were given a Barron’s Regents review study guide with lots of practice problems. Their teachers worked through the first half of the problems, explaining how to solve them step by step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The other half of their classmates studied the same algebra topics in a different way. They spent the first 45-minute session taking a mini practice test. They received no instruction and worked independently. The following day, their teachers went over the students’ errors. The students had four test-and-review cycles like this, for a total of four mini tests and four sessions of error review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Then, the two groups swapped. The kids who had been taught via traditional, explicit instruction switched to reviewing the remaining algebra topics through their errors. And the kids who had been correcting their errors received eight sessions of traditional test prep. Their teachers taught both ways too, so that differences between the two modes couldn’t be attributed to a particular teacher. The following year, the same four teachers repeated the entire experiment with a fresh group of eighth graders. All told, 175 kids participated in the experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Which method worked best?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">On the surface, it was a tie. Students improved by about the same amount – 12% – whether they learned through explicit instruction or error review. Students had taken tests before and after the test prep course. Noting how much they improved on various algebra topics, researchers were able to trace those gains back to whether students learned that topic through explicit instruction or through their errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">There was one big difference, however. Learning through errors was twice as powerful based on instructional time. Teachers had to teach all eight sessions in the traditional instruction condition, totaling 360 minutes of instructional time. But teachers only had to teach every other session when students learned through errors, adding up to only 180 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">“You get more bang from your teacher buck, if you will, from the learning from errors condition,” said Janet Metcalfe, a psychologist at Columbia University who led the study, which was \u003ca href=\"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjep.12651\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">published online in the British Journal of Educational Psychology\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in January 2024. (\u003ci>The Hechinger Report is an independent news organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University, but has no relationship with the middle school or the researchers involved in the study.\u003c/i>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Of course, students might not see it that way. They still had to be in class for the full 360 minutes after school, with half the time spent taking practice tests in order to generate the errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The study is not a repudiation of explicit instruction. The students were also taking an algebra class during the school day where they had likely had a lot of explicit instruction and were already familiar with the concepts. Metcalfe said that having this background knowledge is critical for learning by errors to work. The students aren’t just guessing, but they’re making common mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">“They’re just doing one little thing wrong,” said Metcalfe. “And once they understand what that one little thing is, and remember not to fall into a habit where they’ll make the same mistake, they can overcome it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Metcalfe offered the example of fractions. A student might mistakenly think that a large denominator means it’s a large number, but then remembers discussing the error in a review session and knows that a fraction with a large denominator might actually be a tiny number. The memory of discussing the error stops the student from making it again, she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Learning from errors, however, was inconsistent. One of the four teachers produced more than twice the test score gains for students than a colleague. It’s not that this teacher was much better than the others. All four teachers produced almost identical test score gains when they taught explicitly how to solve problems. They were all good explainers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">But being a good explainer is not always the same thing as being a good teacher. Metcalfe and her team analyzed videos and transcripts of the review sessions to understand what the teachers were doing differently. And it turns out there are multiple ways to teach through errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The teacher who got the best results employed a sort of Socratic method. “Okay, you guys got this wrong? Why would somebody get this wrong?” recalled Metcalfe. “And he did very little lecturing, almost none.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">This teacher asked his students to talk about how they had solved the problem and why they did it that way.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>He asked them to talk about what they found difficult. Students would often explain their thinking to each other. Finally, the teacher would ask his students to come up with ideas on how to recognize and avoid such mistakes in the future. This teacher had a knack for maintaining a fast pace and getting through a lot of problems from the previous day’s mini test. His students’ test scores jumped by far more than 12% when he taught this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">By contrast, the teacher who produced the lowest test score gains tended to lecture students on the correct way to solve the problems that they had gotten wrong. The focus was on the corrections, not the errors. His classes weren’t very interactive.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>His students’ test scores improved by only 6% instead of 12%. Still, on a per minute basis, he was as effective teaching through errors as he had been teaching traditionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Another teacher was extremely slow paced. “I was convinced when I was watching the teachers that the second teacher would have no success at all,” recalled Metcalfe. “He would take five minutes on one problem, and just let them mull over it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Her prediction was wrong. “His students did really well,” Metcalfe said, laughing. Like the star teacher, he didn’t lecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">It’s worth emphasizing again that these were highly motivated, high-achieving students who cared about their Regents exam scores. This method might not work with less motivated students who are struggling in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Even with ideal students, it also seems like it takes a special teacher to pull off this kind of teaching. It reminds me of other progressive teaching approaches, from inquiry learning to project-based learning, for which researchers have documented remarkable results with masterful teachers. But maybe it’s asking too much of the average teacher to teach this way, thinking of questions on the fly that will magically steer students to the right answers. Should we be promoting ways of teaching that only a small minority of teachers can realistically do well?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">My big takeaway from this study is for students. When preparing for a math exam, they should take a practice test, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53524/how-revising-math-exams-turns-students-into-learners-not-processors\">go over mistakes and make sure they understand\u003c/a> why they made them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\u003ci>This story about \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-the-surprising-effectiveness-of-having-kids-study-why-they-failed/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>test prep\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/i>The Hechinger Report\u003ci>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Proof Points newsletter\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1342,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":2},"modified":1714323927,"excerpt":"An experiment reveals that reviewing and understanding your errors is an effective way to study.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"An experiment reveals that reviewing and understanding your errors is an effective way to study.","socialDescription":"An experiment reveals that reviewing and understanding your errors is an effective way to study.","title":"The Surprising Effectiveness of Having Kids Study Why They Failed | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Surprising Effectiveness of Having Kids Study Why They Failed","datePublished":"2024-03-04T03:00:29-08:00","dateModified":"2024-04-28T10:05:27-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-surprising-effectiveness-of-having-kids-study-why-they-failed","status":"publish","nprByline":"Jill Barshay, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","sticky":false,"showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/63278/the-surprising-effectiveness-of-having-kids-study-why-they-failed","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p7\">For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small \u003ca href=\"https://www.columbiasecondary.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">public school affiliated with Columbia University\u003c/span>\u003c/a> agreed to stay late after school to study math. They were preparing for a critical test, the New York State’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning/testing/ny-state-high-school-regents-exams\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Regents examination\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in algebra. Half of the kids came from families that lived below the poverty line in Harlem and upper Manhattan. They attended a selective middle school and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. Many others were the children of Columbia professors, and none of them – rich or poor – really needed help passing the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">But researchers set up a review class to test a theory about the best way to study for a test. For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class. They were given a Barron’s Regents review study guide with lots of practice problems. Their teachers worked through the first half of the problems, explaining how to solve them step by step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The other half of their classmates studied the same algebra topics in a different way. They spent the first 45-minute session taking a mini practice test. They received no instruction and worked independently. The following day, their teachers went over the students’ errors. The students had four test-and-review cycles like this, for a total of four mini tests and four sessions of error review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Then, the two groups swapped. The kids who had been taught via traditional, explicit instruction switched to reviewing the remaining algebra topics through their errors. And the kids who had been correcting their errors received eight sessions of traditional test prep. Their teachers taught both ways too, so that differences between the two modes couldn’t be attributed to a particular teacher. The following year, the same four teachers repeated the entire experiment with a fresh group of eighth graders. All told, 175 kids participated in the experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Which method worked best?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">On the surface, it was a tie. Students improved by about the same amount – 12% – whether they learned through explicit instruction or error review. Students had taken tests before and after the test prep course. Noting how much they improved on various algebra topics, researchers were able to trace those gains back to whether students learned that topic through explicit instruction or through their errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">There was one big difference, however. Learning through errors was twice as powerful based on instructional time. Teachers had to teach all eight sessions in the traditional instruction condition, totaling 360 minutes of instructional time. But teachers only had to teach every other session when students learned through errors, adding up to only 180 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">“You get more bang from your teacher buck, if you will, from the learning from errors condition,” said Janet Metcalfe, a psychologist at Columbia University who led the study, which was \u003ca href=\"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjep.12651\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">published online in the British Journal of Educational Psychology\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in January 2024. (\u003ci>The Hechinger Report is an independent news organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University, but has no relationship with the middle school or the researchers involved in the study.\u003c/i>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Of course, students might not see it that way. They still had to be in class for the full 360 minutes after school, with half the time spent taking practice tests in order to generate the errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The study is not a repudiation of explicit instruction. The students were also taking an algebra class during the school day where they had likely had a lot of explicit instruction and were already familiar with the concepts. Metcalfe said that having this background knowledge is critical for learning by errors to work. The students aren’t just guessing, but they’re making common mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">“They’re just doing one little thing wrong,” said Metcalfe. “And once they understand what that one little thing is, and remember not to fall into a habit where they’ll make the same mistake, they can overcome it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Metcalfe offered the example of fractions. A student might mistakenly think that a large denominator means it’s a large number, but then remembers discussing the error in a review session and knows that a fraction with a large denominator might actually be a tiny number. The memory of discussing the error stops the student from making it again, she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Learning from errors, however, was inconsistent. One of the four teachers produced more than twice the test score gains for students than a colleague. It’s not that this teacher was much better than the others. All four teachers produced almost identical test score gains when they taught explicitly how to solve problems. They were all good explainers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">But being a good explainer is not always the same thing as being a good teacher. Metcalfe and her team analyzed videos and transcripts of the review sessions to understand what the teachers were doing differently. And it turns out there are multiple ways to teach through errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The teacher who got the best results employed a sort of Socratic method. “Okay, you guys got this wrong? Why would somebody get this wrong?” recalled Metcalfe. “And he did very little lecturing, almost none.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">This teacher asked his students to talk about how they had solved the problem and why they did it that way.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>He asked them to talk about what they found difficult. Students would often explain their thinking to each other. Finally, the teacher would ask his students to come up with ideas on how to recognize and avoid such mistakes in the future. This teacher had a knack for maintaining a fast pace and getting through a lot of problems from the previous day’s mini test. His students’ test scores jumped by far more than 12% when he taught this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">By contrast, the teacher who produced the lowest test score gains tended to lecture students on the correct way to solve the problems that they had gotten wrong. The focus was on the corrections, not the errors. His classes weren’t very interactive.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>His students’ test scores improved by only 6% instead of 12%. Still, on a per minute basis, he was as effective teaching through errors as he had been teaching traditionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Another teacher was extremely slow paced. “I was convinced when I was watching the teachers that the second teacher would have no success at all,” recalled Metcalfe. “He would take five minutes on one problem, and just let them mull over it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Her prediction was wrong. “His students did really well,” Metcalfe said, laughing. Like the star teacher, he didn’t lecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">It’s worth emphasizing again that these were highly motivated, high-achieving students who cared about their Regents exam scores. This method might not work with less motivated students who are struggling in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Even with ideal students, it also seems like it takes a special teacher to pull off this kind of teaching. It reminds me of other progressive teaching approaches, from inquiry learning to project-based learning, for which researchers have documented remarkable results with masterful teachers. But maybe it’s asking too much of the average teacher to teach this way, thinking of questions on the fly that will magically steer students to the right answers. Should we be promoting ways of teaching that only a small minority of teachers can realistically do well?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">My big takeaway from this study is for students. When preparing for a math exam, they should take a practice test, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53524/how-revising-math-exams-turns-students-into-learners-not-processors\">go over mistakes and make sure they understand\u003c/a> why they made them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\u003ci>This story about \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-the-surprising-effectiveness-of-having-kids-study-why-they-failed/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>test prep\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/i>The Hechinger Report\u003ci>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Proof Points newsletter\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/63278/the-surprising-effectiveness-of-having-kids-study-why-they-failed","authors":["byline_mindshift_63278"],"categories":["mindshift_21504"],"tags":["mindshift_392","mindshift_21775"],"featImg":"mindshift_63279","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_63058":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_63058","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"mindshift","id":"63058","score":null,"sort":[1707127253000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-one-district-has-diversified-its-advanced-math-classes-without-the-controversy","title":"How One District Diversified Its Advanced Math Classes — Without the Controversy","publishDate":1707127253,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How One District Diversified Its Advanced Math Classes — Without the Controversy | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about math equity was produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TULSA, Okla. — Amoni and Zoe scattered the contents of a sandwich bag full of fruit-flavored candy across their desks as part of a math lesson on ratios.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What does it mean to have 50%?” their teacher, Kelly Woodfin, asked the sixth graders in her advanced math class. “What does it mean to have half?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amoni and Zoe, both 11, ate just one piece of candy each, as they converted the share of green apples or pink strawberries from their bag into fractions, decimals and percents. When they got stumped on a strategy for turning a decimal into a percentage, the pair’s arms shot in the air.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think, you go two steps over, and to the left,” Amoni said, her voice trailing into a question.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You’ve been doing this for two weeks, sister,” Woodfin playfully chided her. “I don’t know why you’re doubting yourself.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Years ago, when Woodfin attended \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.unionps.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Union Public Schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from kindergarten through eighth grade, she sat in fairly homogenous classrooms. Woodfin recalled her peers as predominantly white, a legacy of families moving to the suburbs as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED145054\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tulsa schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> desegregated during the 1950s. But when she returned to teach at Union in 2012, the white student population had shrunk to a little more than half of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/1967/annual_report_12-13.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">total enrollment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until recently, however, students in Union’s advanced math classes remained mostly white. The accelerated track in middle and high school drew mostly from elementary schools in affluent neighborhoods, where students tended to perform better on a pre-algebra placement test that they had one chance to take as fifth graders. But on a recent winter day, only two of Woodfin’s students identified as white and more than a third were still learning English.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Woodfin, once a student at Union Public Schools in Tulsa, Okla., teaches advanced math to a class of sixth graders. \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The transformation of Woodfin’s class rosters represent more than a general shift in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oklaschools.com/district/72I009/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who attends Union schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where today only one in four students is white. It’s also the result of a years-long campaign to identify and promote more students from underrepresented backgrounds into the district’s most challenging math courses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elsewhere, concerns about who gets access to advanced math have led districts to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/does-detracking-promote-educational-equity/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">end the tracking\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of students into different math classes by perceived ability or to remove accelerated classes altogether in the name of equity. Union, by contrast, has attempted to find a middle ground. The district, which overlaps part of Tulsa and its southeast suburbs, continues to track students into separate math classes beginning in sixth grade. But it has also added new ways beyond the one-time placement test for students to qualify for higher level math courses, and increased support — including in-school tutoring and longer class periods — for students who’ve shown promise in the subject.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment data suggest the effort to make higher-level math accessible to more students had started to yield results before the pandemic. But there have been challenges: In the last few years, fewer students overall have enrolled in advanced math classes, although the declines for Black and Hispanic students have been less steep than for other groups. Anti-teacher sentiment, on top of Oklahoma’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/education/addressing-the-teacher-shortage-oklahoma-to-offer-bonuses-up-to-50-000/article_1e6ee1a2-e39e-11ed-85c5-efc1e0044b5c.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">low teacher salaries\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, have made it difficult to hire math educators, administrators here say. At Union High School, an Algebra 2 position remained vacant for more than a year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the district remains committed to its changes. Recently, principals and veteran math educators have persuaded some former students to join Union’s teaching ranks. Shannan Bittle, a secondary math specialist for Union, said new academic programs — like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fox23.com/news/local/union-public-schools-starts-new-year-launches-aeronautics-program/article_9b39dde6-3c62-11ee-b26c-23ea4f636a91.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">aviation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1216770762027851\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">construction\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — could offer students more ways to apply higher levels of math in lucrative jobs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We try really, really hard not to keep people out” of accelerated math, she said. “But we do our best to give them the tools to succeed.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63061\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel, right, helps Josue with an exercise on graphing coordinates during Kelly Woodfin’s sixth-grade math class. \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taking algebra or higher in middle school places a student on the path to calculus in high school, which opens the door to selective colleges and is considered a gateway course for many high-paying STEM careers. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsdata.ed.gov/profile/us?surveyYear=2020\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federal education data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shows white students enroll in high school calculus at nearly eight times the rate of their Black peers and about triple the average for Hispanic students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There are many Black and Latino students and students from low-income backgrounds who have demonstrated an aptitude and are yearning for more — yet they are systemically denied access to advanced math courses,” wrote the authors of a December 2023 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Advanced-Math-V9.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from nonprofits Education Trust and Just Equations. “This practice — and mindset — must change.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, approaches school districts have taken to increase diversity in math have inspired controversy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In San Francisco, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/education/the-lawsuit-that-could-change-california-math-education/article_a5b5e9c8-af1c-11ed-9b0f-07c7d381b5f1.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school district\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> eliminated accelerated math at middle and high schools in 2014 to end the segregating of classrooms by ability, prompting parental outcry. Three years later, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2023/07/18/cambridge-schools-are-divided-over-middle-school-algebra/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cambridge Public Schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Massachusetts began dismantling its policy of tracking students into either accelerated or grade-level math. Near Detroit, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2023/05/17/troy-board-votes-to-eliminate-middle-school-honors-classes/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Troy school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> voted to remove advanced math for middle schools beginning later this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63068\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63068\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1/24/24 10:19:25 AM — A student works at her desk during Kelly Woodfin’s 6th grade math class at the Union Schools 6th and 7th Grade Center in Tulsa, Okla.\u003cbr>Photo by Shane Bevel \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similarly, the California state board of education last year adopted new curriculum guidelines that, among other ideas, encourage schools to delay algebra until ninth grade. The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr23/yr23rel54.asp\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">board insisted\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the framework “affirms California’s commitment to ensuring equity and excellence in math learning for all students.” But critics — including \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/california-adopts-controversial-new-math-framework-heres-whats-in-it/2023/07\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">math and science professors\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — have suggested it does the opposite, by denying students the academic preparation they need to succeed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I see the value, in theory,” Rebecka Peterson, a Union High math teacher and 2023 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ntoy.ccsso.org/rebecka-peterson-2023-national-teacher-of-the-year/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Teacher of the Year\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said of efforts like California’s. But, she added, “Kids are so unique, and one size fits all — as a mom, it’s not what I want for my son.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peterson started working for Union schools about 12 years ago, teaching math classes ranging from intermediate algebra to advanced placement calculus. Early on, Peterson noticed the demographic split in her classes: “We’re a very culturally rich district, and yet, my calculus classes were mostly white,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She decided to talk with her principal at the time, Lisa Witcher. The pair discovered that, although Union High enrolled students from all 13 elementary campuses, Peterson’s calculus students primarily started at just three — the whitest and wealthiest of Union’s elementaries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shortly after, district administration tapped Witcher to spearhead a new \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://uhs.unionps.org/college-career/edge\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">early college program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She began recruiting students who had completed geometry as freshmen, but found only a tenth of Black freshmen in Union were eligible to enroll in that class. They hadn’t taken the prerequisite, Algebra 1, in eighth grade.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That sparked some uncomfortable conversations,” said Witcher, who retired from the district in 2021.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, administrators traced the cause of the narrow pipeline into advanced middle and high school math to the fifth grade. That’s when schools administered a heavily word-based exam, which students had one chance to pass. District officials said the high-stakes exam disadvantaged two growing populations in Union schools: kids who were still learning English, and children from low-income families, whose parents couldn’t afford private tutors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This discovery prompted a series of changes, beginning about a decade ago. The school district did not eliminate the fifth-grade exam as an entryway into advanced math, but students can now attempt the test multiple times. Elementary schools offer math tutors starting in the third grade, with after-school programs for students struggling in the subject. Teachers can refer promising students for sixth grade advanced math, regardless of how they did on the placement exam. A central administrator also reviews student grades and growth on proficiency exams to automatically enroll students into an accelerated class. (Parents are sent a letter notifying them of the automatic enrollment, at which point they can choose to opt out.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We hunt them down from every corner of the school district,” said Todd Nelson, a former math teacher who now oversees data, research and testing for the district.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 2016, the diversity of students enrolled in the district’s advanced math courses has increased. Hispanic students now make up 29% of enrollment, up from 18%; Black and multiracial students each represent 10% of enrollment, up from about 8% in 2016.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixth grader Jonathan works a problem on the smart board during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class. \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More recently, however, participation in higher-level math has dipped in Union schools, across all student subgroups. District data show the trend, especially in high school, started before the pandemic. But administrators say the disruption of school lockdowns contributed to a lingering aversion to signing up for challenging courses. Still, the share of Black, Hispanic and multiracial students enrolling in Union’s advanced math classes has fallen at much lower rates than those of Asian and white students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We see this as the long-term process of the work that we’re doing, as opposed to fixing the problem in one year,” Nelson added.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Woodfin’s sixth grade class, 11-year-old Vianca wasn’t sure how she got into advanced math. She remembered taking a “super hard” test as a fifth grader and registered for regular math in middle school.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I guess I was just placed in here,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vianca said the subject has been a struggle this year. But a recent shift in sixth grade schedules to add more time for math means she has 90 minutes — instead of just 45 — with Woodfin each day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“She always slows down” when it feels like too much, Vianca said of her teacher. “I can ask for help.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63063\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-768x472.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-2048x1260.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-1920x1181.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixth grade teacher Kelly Woodfin uses sports metaphors to help her students during an advanced math at Union Public Schools in Tulsa, Okla. \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doubling the amount of math that both sixth graders take in Union has come with a cost. Some parents bristled at the reduction of extracurriculars, like art or music. The change required doubling the number of secondary math teachers, and principals already had a hard time recruiting teachers for those subjects. (Last school year, the turnover rate for Oklahoma teachers reached 24%, the highest rate in a decade, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sde.ok.gov/comprehensive-teacher-pay-reform\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lack of teacher diversity also complicates the district’s overall mission of increasing diversity in advanced math, Bittle acknowledged. Only two out of about 90 middle and high school math teachers identify as Black, and efforts to recruit at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.langston.edu/education-behavioral-sciences\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Langston University\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the state’s only historically Black university, have yet to prove successful. Bittle added that Oklahoma’s low pay for teachers doesn’t help: Schools in neighboring states tend to offer much more than the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/careertech/educators/agricultural-education/program-funding/Salary%20Schedule%20for%202023-2024.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">roughly $40,000\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> starting salary for teachers in the Sooner State.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research on the detracking debate presents a complicated picture. About the same time that the district made its changes, one international study suggested steering bright students into accelerated classes could \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/schools-exacerbate-the-growing-achievement-gap-between-rich-and-poor-a-33-country-study-finds/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">exacerbate the rich-poor divide\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in schools. Another paper, published by the Brookings Institution in 2016, found that Black and Hispanic students \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/finding-benefits-tracking/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">scored better on Advanced Placement exams\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in states that tracked more eighth graders into different ability levels in math.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This will remain murky,” said Kristen Hengtgen, a senior analyst with the Education Trust. “Detracking seems to have good intentions, but we just haven’t seen it work conclusively yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63069\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixth grader Jayda works at her desk in an advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district has tried to increase the diversity of students on its accelerated math track. \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Union remains committed to its efforts, though. And in a pin-drop quiet calculus class, where only the hum of the HVAC system disrupted the scratching of pencils, students remained committed to their own hard work.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lizeth Rosas sat in the back row. Wearing bright blue smocks for a nursing program she had later in the day, the 18-year-old scribbled notes on how to find the average value of friction with a given interval.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Any questions?” her teacher invited. “Speak now, or forever hold your peace.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only eight of the 22 students in the class identified as white. Rosas first got into an advanced math as a seventh grader, she said. Last year, to her surprise, a teacher recommended she take the Advanced Placement course.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“In the beginning, I questioned myself — a lot,” she said. “I didn’t know if I was ready. It’s kind of a lot to process, and we move so fast.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rosas plans to work as a licensed practical nurse after graduation, and expects conversions of medications and IV fluids will require math. Her father, who runs his own remodeling company, can’t help with her calculus work, she said. But, her nursing program, part of a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tulsatech.edu/about-the-district/locations/high-school-extension-programs/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">high school extension program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the nearby Tulsa Technology Center, offers academic tutoring.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I don’t really need it,” Rosas said. “The teachers here are really helpful. They just kind of help me. They remind me I can do it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/how-one-district-has-diversified-its-advanced-math-classes-without-the-controversy/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">math equity\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">was produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Fights over ‘detracking’ math classes have roiled other districts. But Union Public Schools, in Oklahoma, took a middle ground, adding tutoring and non-test-based ways for students to qualify for advanced math.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1720533137,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":47,"wordCount":2439},"headData":{"title":"How One District Diversified Its Advanced Math Classes — Without the Controversy | KQED","description":"Fights over ‘detracking’ math classes have roiled some districts. But an Oklahoma district has found success with a middle ground approach.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Fights over ‘detracking’ math classes have roiled some districts. But an Oklahoma district has found success with a middle ground approach.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How One District Diversified Its Advanced Math Classes — Without the Controversy","datePublished":"2024-02-05T02:00:53-08:00","dateModified":"2024-07-09T06:52:17-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Neal Morton, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/63058/how-one-district-has-diversified-its-advanced-math-classes-without-the-controversy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about math equity was produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TULSA, Okla. — Amoni and Zoe scattered the contents of a sandwich bag full of fruit-flavored candy across their desks as part of a math lesson on ratios.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What does it mean to have 50%?” their teacher, Kelly Woodfin, asked the sixth graders in her advanced math class. “What does it mean to have half?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amoni and Zoe, both 11, ate just one piece of candy each, as they converted the share of green apples or pink strawberries from their bag into fractions, decimals and percents. When they got stumped on a strategy for turning a decimal into a percentage, the pair’s arms shot in the air.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think, you go two steps over, and to the left,” Amoni said, her voice trailing into a question.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You’ve been doing this for two weeks, sister,” Woodfin playfully chided her. “I don’t know why you’re doubting yourself.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Years ago, when Woodfin attended \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.unionps.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Union Public Schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from kindergarten through eighth grade, she sat in fairly homogenous classrooms. Woodfin recalled her peers as predominantly white, a legacy of families moving to the suburbs as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED145054\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tulsa schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> desegregated during the 1950s. But when she returned to teach at Union in 2012, the white student population had shrunk to a little more than half of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/1967/annual_report_12-13.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">total enrollment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until recently, however, students in Union’s advanced math classes remained mostly white. The accelerated track in middle and high school drew mostly from elementary schools in affluent neighborhoods, where students tended to perform better on a pre-algebra placement test that they had one chance to take as fifth graders. But on a recent winter day, only two of Woodfin’s students identified as white and more than a third were still learning English.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Woodfin, once a student at Union Public Schools in Tulsa, Okla., teaches advanced math to a class of sixth graders. \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The transformation of Woodfin’s class rosters represent more than a general shift in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oklaschools.com/district/72I009/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who attends Union schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where today only one in four students is white. It’s also the result of a years-long campaign to identify and promote more students from underrepresented backgrounds into the district’s most challenging math courses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elsewhere, concerns about who gets access to advanced math have led districts to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/does-detracking-promote-educational-equity/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">end the tracking\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of students into different math classes by perceived ability or to remove accelerated classes altogether in the name of equity. Union, by contrast, has attempted to find a middle ground. The district, which overlaps part of Tulsa and its southeast suburbs, continues to track students into separate math classes beginning in sixth grade. But it has also added new ways beyond the one-time placement test for students to qualify for higher level math courses, and increased support — including in-school tutoring and longer class periods — for students who’ve shown promise in the subject.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment data suggest the effort to make higher-level math accessible to more students had started to yield results before the pandemic. But there have been challenges: In the last few years, fewer students overall have enrolled in advanced math classes, although the declines for Black and Hispanic students have been less steep than for other groups. Anti-teacher sentiment, on top of Oklahoma’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/education/addressing-the-teacher-shortage-oklahoma-to-offer-bonuses-up-to-50-000/article_1e6ee1a2-e39e-11ed-85c5-efc1e0044b5c.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">low teacher salaries\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, have made it difficult to hire math educators, administrators here say. At Union High School, an Algebra 2 position remained vacant for more than a year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the district remains committed to its changes. Recently, principals and veteran math educators have persuaded some former students to join Union’s teaching ranks. Shannan Bittle, a secondary math specialist for Union, said new academic programs — like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fox23.com/news/local/union-public-schools-starts-new-year-launches-aeronautics-program/article_9b39dde6-3c62-11ee-b26c-23ea4f636a91.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">aviation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1216770762027851\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">construction\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — could offer students more ways to apply higher levels of math in lucrative jobs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We try really, really hard not to keep people out” of accelerated math, she said. “But we do our best to give them the tools to succeed.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63061\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel, right, helps Josue with an exercise on graphing coordinates during Kelly Woodfin’s sixth-grade math class. \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taking algebra or higher in middle school places a student on the path to calculus in high school, which opens the door to selective colleges and is considered a gateway course for many high-paying STEM careers. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsdata.ed.gov/profile/us?surveyYear=2020\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federal education data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shows white students enroll in high school calculus at nearly eight times the rate of their Black peers and about triple the average for Hispanic students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There are many Black and Latino students and students from low-income backgrounds who have demonstrated an aptitude and are yearning for more — yet they are systemically denied access to advanced math courses,” wrote the authors of a December 2023 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Advanced-Math-V9.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from nonprofits Education Trust and Just Equations. “This practice — and mindset — must change.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, approaches school districts have taken to increase diversity in math have inspired controversy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In San Francisco, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/education/the-lawsuit-that-could-change-california-math-education/article_a5b5e9c8-af1c-11ed-9b0f-07c7d381b5f1.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school district\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> eliminated accelerated math at middle and high schools in 2014 to end the segregating of classrooms by ability, prompting parental outcry. Three years later, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2023/07/18/cambridge-schools-are-divided-over-middle-school-algebra/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cambridge Public Schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Massachusetts began dismantling its policy of tracking students into either accelerated or grade-level math. Near Detroit, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2023/05/17/troy-board-votes-to-eliminate-middle-school-honors-classes/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Troy school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> voted to remove advanced math for middle schools beginning later this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63068\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63068\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity03-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1/24/24 10:19:25 AM — A student works at her desk during Kelly Woodfin’s 6th grade math class at the Union Schools 6th and 7th Grade Center in Tulsa, Okla.\u003cbr>Photo by Shane Bevel \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similarly, the California state board of education last year adopted new curriculum guidelines that, among other ideas, encourage schools to delay algebra until ninth grade. The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr23/yr23rel54.asp\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">board insisted\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the framework “affirms California’s commitment to ensuring equity and excellence in math learning for all students.” But critics — including \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/california-adopts-controversial-new-math-framework-heres-whats-in-it/2023/07\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">math and science professors\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — have suggested it does the opposite, by denying students the academic preparation they need to succeed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I see the value, in theory,” Rebecka Peterson, a Union High math teacher and 2023 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ntoy.ccsso.org/rebecka-peterson-2023-national-teacher-of-the-year/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Teacher of the Year\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said of efforts like California’s. But, she added, “Kids are so unique, and one size fits all — as a mom, it’s not what I want for my son.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peterson started working for Union schools about 12 years ago, teaching math classes ranging from intermediate algebra to advanced placement calculus. Early on, Peterson noticed the demographic split in her classes: “We’re a very culturally rich district, and yet, my calculus classes were mostly white,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She decided to talk with her principal at the time, Lisa Witcher. The pair discovered that, although Union High enrolled students from all 13 elementary campuses, Peterson’s calculus students primarily started at just three — the whitest and wealthiest of Union’s elementaries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shortly after, district administration tapped Witcher to spearhead a new \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://uhs.unionps.org/college-career/edge\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">early college program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She began recruiting students who had completed geometry as freshmen, but found only a tenth of Black freshmen in Union were eligible to enroll in that class. They hadn’t taken the prerequisite, Algebra 1, in eighth grade.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That sparked some uncomfortable conversations,” said Witcher, who retired from the district in 2021.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, administrators traced the cause of the narrow pipeline into advanced middle and high school math to the fifth grade. That’s when schools administered a heavily word-based exam, which students had one chance to pass. District officials said the high-stakes exam disadvantaged two growing populations in Union schools: kids who were still learning English, and children from low-income families, whose parents couldn’t afford private tutors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This discovery prompted a series of changes, beginning about a decade ago. The school district did not eliminate the fifth-grade exam as an entryway into advanced math, but students can now attempt the test multiple times. Elementary schools offer math tutors starting in the third grade, with after-school programs for students struggling in the subject. Teachers can refer promising students for sixth grade advanced math, regardless of how they did on the placement exam. A central administrator also reviews student grades and growth on proficiency exams to automatically enroll students into an accelerated class. (Parents are sent a letter notifying them of the automatic enrollment, at which point they can choose to opt out.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We hunt them down from every corner of the school district,” said Todd Nelson, a former math teacher who now oversees data, research and testing for the district.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 2016, the diversity of students enrolled in the district’s advanced math courses has increased. Hispanic students now make up 29% of enrollment, up from 18%; Black and multiracial students each represent 10% of enrollment, up from about 8% in 2016.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity07-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixth grader Jonathan works a problem on the smart board during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class. \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More recently, however, participation in higher-level math has dipped in Union schools, across all student subgroups. District data show the trend, especially in high school, started before the pandemic. But administrators say the disruption of school lockdowns contributed to a lingering aversion to signing up for challenging courses. Still, the share of Black, Hispanic and multiracial students enrolling in Union’s advanced math classes has fallen at much lower rates than those of Asian and white students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We see this as the long-term process of the work that we’re doing, as opposed to fixing the problem in one year,” Nelson added.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Woodfin’s sixth grade class, 11-year-old Vianca wasn’t sure how she got into advanced math. She remembered taking a “super hard” test as a fifth grader and registered for regular math in middle school.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I guess I was just placed in here,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vianca said the subject has been a struggle this year. But a recent shift in sixth grade schedules to add more time for math means she has 90 minutes — instead of just 45 — with Woodfin each day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“She always slows down” when it feels like too much, Vianca said of her teacher. “I can ask for help.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63063\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-768x472.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-2048x1260.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity08-1920x1181.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixth grade teacher Kelly Woodfin uses sports metaphors to help her students during an advanced math at Union Public Schools in Tulsa, Okla. \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doubling the amount of math that both sixth graders take in Union has come with a cost. Some parents bristled at the reduction of extracurriculars, like art or music. The change required doubling the number of secondary math teachers, and principals already had a hard time recruiting teachers for those subjects. (Last school year, the turnover rate for Oklahoma teachers reached 24%, the highest rate in a decade, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sde.ok.gov/comprehensive-teacher-pay-reform\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lack of teacher diversity also complicates the district’s overall mission of increasing diversity in advanced math, Bittle acknowledged. Only two out of about 90 middle and high school math teachers identify as Black, and efforts to recruit at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.langston.edu/education-behavioral-sciences\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Langston University\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the state’s only historically Black university, have yet to prove successful. Bittle added that Oklahoma’s low pay for teachers doesn’t help: Schools in neighboring states tend to offer much more than the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/careertech/educators/agricultural-education/program-funding/Salary%20Schedule%20for%202023-2024.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">roughly $40,000\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> starting salary for teachers in the Sooner State.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research on the detracking debate presents a complicated picture. About the same time that the district made its changes, one international study suggested steering bright students into accelerated classes could \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/schools-exacerbate-the-growing-achievement-gap-between-rich-and-poor-a-33-country-study-finds/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">exacerbate the rich-poor divide\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in schools. Another paper, published by the Brookings Institution in 2016, found that Black and Hispanic students \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/finding-benefits-tracking/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">scored better on Advanced Placement exams\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in states that tracked more eighth graders into different ability levels in math.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This will remain murky,” said Kristen Hengtgen, a senior analyst with the Education Trust. “Detracking seems to have good intentions, but we just haven’t seen it work conclusively yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63069\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/02/morton-calculus-equity02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixth grader Jayda works at her desk in an advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district has tried to increase the diversity of students on its accelerated math track. \u003ccite>(Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Union remains committed to its efforts, though. And in a pin-drop quiet calculus class, where only the hum of the HVAC system disrupted the scratching of pencils, students remained committed to their own hard work.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lizeth Rosas sat in the back row. Wearing bright blue smocks for a nursing program she had later in the day, the 18-year-old scribbled notes on how to find the average value of friction with a given interval.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Any questions?” her teacher invited. “Speak now, or forever hold your peace.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only eight of the 22 students in the class identified as white. Rosas first got into an advanced math as a seventh grader, she said. Last year, to her surprise, a teacher recommended she take the Advanced Placement course.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“In the beginning, I questioned myself — a lot,” she said. “I didn’t know if I was ready. It’s kind of a lot to process, and we move so fast.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rosas plans to work as a licensed practical nurse after graduation, and expects conversions of medications and IV fluids will require math. Her father, who runs his own remodeling company, can’t help with her calculus work, she said. But, her nursing program, part of a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tulsatech.edu/about-the-district/locations/high-school-extension-programs/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">high school extension program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the nearby Tulsa Technology Center, offers academic tutoring.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I don’t really need it,” Rosas said. “The teachers here are really helpful. They just kind of help me. They remind me I can do it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/how-one-district-has-diversified-its-advanced-math-classes-without-the-controversy/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">math equity\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">was produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. 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But they also don’t always tell the whole story. That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past, PISA results have often spurred anguished discussion about why U.S. students are so far behind other countries like Finland, Korea and Poland. But the most recent rankings, released in December 2023, indicated that U.S. 15-year olds moved up in the international rankings for all three subjects – \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Math-rankings-PISA-2022.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">math\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Reading-rankings-PISA-2022.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reading\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Science-rankings-PISA-2022.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">science\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “\u003ca href=\"https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USED/bulletins/37e3e90\">in the game\u003c/a>” during the pandemic. (The tests were administered in 2022.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that rosy spin hides a much grimmer picture. Rankings may have risen, but test scores did not. The only reason the U.S. rose is because academic performance in once higher ranking countries, such as Iceland, fell by even more since the previous testing round in 2018. Neither India nor China, which topped the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/what-2018-pisa-international-rankings-tell-us-about-u-s-schools/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rankings in 2018\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, participated in the 2022 PISA. In math, the U.S. rose from 29th place to 28th place, still in the bottom half of economically advanced nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international organization of 38 member countries that oversees the PISA exam. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deterioration in math was particularly devastating. American students scored 13 points lower than in 2018, equivalent to losing two-thirds of a year of education in the subject. These were the lowest U.S. math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. More than a third of U.S. 15-year-olds (mostly 10th graders) are considered to be \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-07-at-1.28.02-PM.png\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">low performers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, unable to compare distances between two routes or convert prices into a different currency. Over the past decade, the share of U.S. students in this lowest level has swelled; back in 2012, a little over a quarter of U.S. students were considered to be low performers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only 7% of American students can do math at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-07-at-1.28.02-PM.png\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">advanced levels\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The United States has more students in the bottom group and fewer students in the top group than most other industrialized countries that are part of the OECD. (Click here to see an international ranking of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/PISA-2022-low-and-top.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">low and top performers in each country\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The results also confirmed the widespread inequalities in U.S. education. Black and Hispanic students, on average, scored far below Asian and white students. Those from low-income backgrounds scored lower than their more affluent peers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andreas Schleicher, director for education and skills at the OECD, emphasized that the inequities in the U.S. are often misunderstood to be a problem of weak schools in poor neighborhoods. His analysis indicates that low math performance is common throughout U.S. schools. Some students are performing much worse than others within the same school, and that range between low and advanced students within U.S. schools is much greater than the range in scores between schools. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This new PISA test is the first major international education indicator since the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and disrupted education. Test scores declined all around the world, but the OECD found there was only a small relationship between \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/School-closures-PISA-2022.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">how long schools were closed and their students’ performance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the PISA test. School closures explained only 11% of the variation in countries’ test scores; nearly 90% is attributable to other, unclear reasons. However, the OECD looked at the absolute level of test scores and not how much test scores fell or rose. More analysis is needed to see if there’s a stronger link between school closures and test score changes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even if school closures eventually prove to be a more important factor, the pandemic isn’t the only reason students are struggling. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-08-at-8.19.02-AM.png\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Global scores have generally been declining for the past two decades\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. One hypothesis is that technology is distracting teenagers. Students were asked about technology distraction for the first time on the 2022 PISA. Forty-five percent of students said they feel anxious if their phones are not near them. Sixty-five percent report being distracted by digital devices during math lessons. Up to an hour a day of computer time for leisure was associated with higher performance. But heavy users, those who spent five to seven hours on computers for fun, had lower academic performance, even after adjusting for family and school socioeconomic profiles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another factor could be the rise in migration across the world. Perhaps declining test scores reflect the challenge of educating new immigrants. However, the OECD didn’t find a statistically significant correlation between \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-08-at-8.22.06-AM.png\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">immigration and academic performance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on average. In the United States, immigrants outscored students with native-born parents in math after adjusting for socio-economic status. There was no difference between immigrants and non-immigrants in reading.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Japan was one of the few countries to defy the trends. Both its math and reading scores rose considerably between 2018 and 2022. Akihiko Takahashi, professor emeritus of mathematics and mathematics education at Chicago’s DePaul University, said schools were closed for a shorter period of time in Japan and that helped, but he also credits the collective spirit among Japanese teachers. In his conversations with Japanese teachers, Takahashi learned how teachers covered for each other during school closures to make sure no students in their schools fell behind. Some went house to house, correcting student homework. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s tempting to look at the terrible PISA math scores and say they are evidence that the U.S. needs to change how it teaches math. But the PISA results don’t offer clear recommendations on which math approaches are most effective. Even Japan, one of the top performing nations, has a mixed approach. Takahashi says that students are taught with a more progressive approach in elementary school, often asking students to solve problems on their own without step-by-step instructions and to develop their own mathematical reasoning. But by high school, when this PISA exam is taken, direct, explicit instruction is more the norm.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new results also highlighted the continued decline of a former star. For years, Finland was a role model for excellent academic performance. Education officials visited from around the world to learn about its progressive approaches. But the country has dropped 60 points over the past few testing cycles – equivalent to losing three full school years of education. I suspect we won’t be hearing calls to teach the Finnish way anymore. “You have to be careful because the leaders of today can be the laggards of tomorrow,” said Tom Loveless, an independent education researcher who studies international assessments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was one bright spot for American students. Fifteen-year-olds scored comparatively well on the PISA reading test, with their scores dropping by just one point while other countries experienced much steeper declines. But that good news is also tempered by the most recent scores on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) test, often called the Nation’s Report Card. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-several-surprises-in-gloomy-naep-report/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reading scores of fourth and eighth graders\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> deteriorated over the last two testing cycles in 2019 and 2022.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, the PISA results provide additional confirmation that U.S. students are in trouble, especially in math, and we can’t put all the blame on the pandemic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-there-is-a-worldwide-problem-in-math-and-its-not-just-about-the-pandemic/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2022 PISA results\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Although U.S. rankings rose for the 2022 PISA test, students actually scored worse than ever in math.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1720204874,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":1302},"headData":{"title":"There's a Worldwide Problem in Math, and It’s Not Just About the Pandemic | KQED","description":"Although U.S. rankings rose for the 2022 PISA test, students actually scored worse than ever in math.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Although U.S. rankings rose for the 2022 PISA test, students actually scored worse than ever in math.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"There's a Worldwide Problem in Math, and It’s Not Just About the Pandemic","datePublished":"2023-12-11T03:00:42-08:00","dateModified":"2024-07-05T11:41:14-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Jill Barshay, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/62834/theres-a-worldwide-problem-in-math-and-its-not-just-about-the-pandemic","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Numbers don’t lie, right? But they also don’t always tell the whole story. That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past, PISA results have often spurred anguished discussion about why U.S. students are so far behind other countries like Finland, Korea and Poland. But the most recent rankings, released in December 2023, indicated that U.S. 15-year olds moved up in the international rankings for all three subjects – \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Math-rankings-PISA-2022.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">math\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Reading-rankings-PISA-2022.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reading\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Science-rankings-PISA-2022.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">science\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “\u003ca href=\"https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USED/bulletins/37e3e90\">in the game\u003c/a>” during the pandemic. (The tests were administered in 2022.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that rosy spin hides a much grimmer picture. Rankings may have risen, but test scores did not. The only reason the U.S. rose is because academic performance in once higher ranking countries, such as Iceland, fell by even more since the previous testing round in 2018. Neither India nor China, which topped the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/what-2018-pisa-international-rankings-tell-us-about-u-s-schools/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rankings in 2018\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, participated in the 2022 PISA. In math, the U.S. rose from 29th place to 28th place, still in the bottom half of economically advanced nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international organization of 38 member countries that oversees the PISA exam. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deterioration in math was particularly devastating. American students scored 13 points lower than in 2018, equivalent to losing two-thirds of a year of education in the subject. These were the lowest U.S. math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. 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Those from low-income backgrounds scored lower than their more affluent peers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andreas Schleicher, director for education and skills at the OECD, emphasized that the inequities in the U.S. are often misunderstood to be a problem of weak schools in poor neighborhoods. His analysis indicates that low math performance is common throughout U.S. schools. Some students are performing much worse than others within the same school, and that range between low and advanced students within U.S. schools is much greater than the range in scores between schools. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This new PISA test is the first major international education indicator since the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and disrupted education. Test scores declined all around the world, but the OECD found there was only a small relationship between \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/School-closures-PISA-2022.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">how long schools were closed and their students’ performance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the PISA test. School closures explained only 11% of the variation in countries’ test scores; nearly 90% is attributable to other, unclear reasons. However, the OECD looked at the absolute level of test scores and not how much test scores fell or rose. More analysis is needed to see if there’s a stronger link between school closures and test score changes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even if school closures eventually prove to be a more important factor, the pandemic isn’t the only reason students are struggling. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-08-at-8.19.02-AM.png\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Global scores have generally been declining for the past two decades\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. One hypothesis is that technology is distracting teenagers. Students were asked about technology distraction for the first time on the 2022 PISA. Forty-five percent of students said they feel anxious if their phones are not near them. Sixty-five percent report being distracted by digital devices during math lessons. Up to an hour a day of computer time for leisure was associated with higher performance. But heavy users, those who spent five to seven hours on computers for fun, had lower academic performance, even after adjusting for family and school socioeconomic profiles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another factor could be the rise in migration across the world. Perhaps declining test scores reflect the challenge of educating new immigrants. However, the OECD didn’t find a statistically significant correlation between \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-08-at-8.22.06-AM.png\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">immigration and academic performance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on average. In the United States, immigrants outscored students with native-born parents in math after adjusting for socio-economic status. There was no difference between immigrants and non-immigrants in reading.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Japan was one of the few countries to defy the trends. Both its math and reading scores rose considerably between 2018 and 2022. Akihiko Takahashi, professor emeritus of mathematics and mathematics education at Chicago’s DePaul University, said schools were closed for a shorter period of time in Japan and that helped, but he also credits the collective spirit among Japanese teachers. In his conversations with Japanese teachers, Takahashi learned how teachers covered for each other during school closures to make sure no students in their schools fell behind. Some went house to house, correcting student homework. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s tempting to look at the terrible PISA math scores and say they are evidence that the U.S. needs to change how it teaches math. But the PISA results don’t offer clear recommendations on which math approaches are most effective. Even Japan, one of the top performing nations, has a mixed approach. Takahashi says that students are taught with a more progressive approach in elementary school, often asking students to solve problems on their own without step-by-step instructions and to develop their own mathematical reasoning. But by high school, when this PISA exam is taken, direct, explicit instruction is more the norm.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new results also highlighted the continued decline of a former star. For years, Finland was a role model for excellent academic performance. Education officials visited from around the world to learn about its progressive approaches. But the country has dropped 60 points over the past few testing cycles – equivalent to losing three full school years of education. I suspect we won’t be hearing calls to teach the Finnish way anymore. “You have to be careful because the leaders of today can be the laggards of tomorrow,” said Tom Loveless, an independent education researcher who studies international assessments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was one bright spot for American students. Fifteen-year-olds scored comparatively well on the PISA reading test, with their scores dropping by just one point while other countries experienced much steeper declines. But that good news is also tempered by the most recent scores on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) test, often called the Nation’s Report Card. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-several-surprises-in-gloomy-naep-report/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reading scores of fourth and eighth graders\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> deteriorated over the last two testing cycles in 2019 and 2022.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, the PISA results provide additional confirmation that U.S. students are in trouble, especially in math, and we can’t put all the blame on the pandemic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-there-is-a-worldwide-problem-in-math-and-its-not-just-about-the-pandemic/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2022 PISA results\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. 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