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PROOF POINTS: Professors say high school math doesn’t prepare most students for their college majors

The Hechinger Report

A survey of college professors indicates that most fields of study don’t require many of the math topics that high school students learn in high school. Credit: Kevin Wolf/ Associated Press The typical ambitious high school student takes advanced algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus and calculus.

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OPINION: It may be time to rethink the emphasis on taking calculus in high school

The Hechinger Report

I took calculus as a high school senior. Only 20 or so students at the large Catholic all-girls school I attended in Chicago were in the class. Yet calculus continues to enjoy a singular status in high school advanced math. It’s been more than 10 years since math and science leaders began calling for change.

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Do Online Degrees Lead to Jobs as Reliably as Traditional Ones?

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percent for high school graduates with no college. Bourdieu studied ways power is transferred and maintained across generations, claiming that your college marks you, reproducing the class status you inherit from your family, with your social position frozen. percent, compared with 5.8

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. In an early morning class, bleary-eyed and still vibrating from coffee, the instructors met with high school-aged students.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

“Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. Jessica Ramos, a 17-year-old senior at Skyline High School in Oakland, California, sits outside the Oakland Town Hall with her dog Lucky. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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OPINION: How best do we teach kids about Holocaust horrors? Show them what it was like

The Hechinger Report

Teams from the USHMM and the Rowan Center developed and deployed and then gathered feedback about these projects from a number of stakeholders, including scholars, museum professionals, middle and high school teachers, college students and a general audience. This is critically important to learning.

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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

The Hechinger Report

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. It’s particularly cost-prohibitive in middle and high school as teachers specialize in subjects.

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