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Grade 10 diploma not a wise idea
- 04-05-2010
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Opinion by Ze'ev Wurman, Sandra Stotsky/San Francisco Chronicle
Ze'ev Wurman, a California electrical engineer, was a member of the committee that wrote the 1997 California Mathematics Framework. He served as a senior policy adviser in the U.S. Department of Education between 2007 and 2009. Sandra Stotsky holds the 21st Century chair in teacher quality at the University of Arkansas
In February, the national press reported on a pilot program that will give high school sophomores in eight states a chance to earn a diploma and head straight to credit-bearing math and English courses at a state college. To do so, they will have to take special course work and can try to pass academic tests known as board exams as early as grade 10. The idea of a grade 10 diploma is the latest brainchild of the National Center on Education and the Economy, the originator of the unsuccessful school-to-work initiative in the 1990s. The project is funded by the Gates Foundation, which has abandoned its initiative to create small high schools as a way to get more low-achieving students through high school. (more...)
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