History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Yes to Common Core plus 8th grade algebra
- 07-16-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Staring at a midnight deadline before going out of business, a state acadenic standards commission last night endorsed and fortified the national common core standards in English language arts and math, with modifications that will set up students for taking a complete Algebra I course in eighth grade. Creating the latter avoided a confrontation with Gov. Schwarzenegger, who appointed a majority of the 21-member California Academic Content Standards Commission and demanded eighth grade algebra as his bottom line. (more...)
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