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Foundations urge adopting A-G for all

  • 09-13-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess

Two foundations in Silicon Valley are encouraging school districts to adopt college preparatory courses, known as A to G, as their default high school curriculum, with all students required to take the classes unless their parents request that they not. In order to ensure that students stay on track for admission to a four-year college, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (the sponsor of this blog) are also urging school districts to create consistent criteria for placing students in Pre-Algebra in seventh grade and Algebra I in eighth grade. The recommendations are among those in the policy brief “Time to Act: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap.” They stemmed from forums on the achievement gap that the foundations sponsored earlier this year. (more…)


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