History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Should a-g be the default curriculum?
- 11-17-2009
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
California ranks 39th in the nation in the percentage of high school graduates who go on to get a bachelor’s degree. There are many breaks, leaks and bottlenecks in the college pipeline. But the diversion starts in high school, with only one-third of graduates fulfilling the a-g requirement. That’s the 15 courses required for admission to a four-year state school. It includes four years of English, three years of math, including Algebra II, two years of a foreign language, two years of history and two years of a lab science. Students need at least a C in every a-g course to get accepted by a CSU school, and they will need B average or above to get into the school of their choice (and a lot higher for a UC campus). San Jose Unified, with 30,000 students, became the first sizable district in the state to make a-g the default curriculum. It took effect with the class of 2002, and the district has had some success, particularly with low-income and Hispanic students, who comprise about half of the district’s 30,000 students. (more...)
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