His class and the Youcubed course are UC-approved. He cited a white paper that found that for about 40 students across three high schools in one district, taking his data-science course was what enabled them to meet UC admissions standards. Gould, the course’s lead creator and a teaching professor in UCLA’s statistics department, by email. “Introduction to Data Science” and similar courses “open up opportunities for more students,” said Robert L. Boaler has called swaths of algebra II as irrelevant as “ sock darning and shorthand,” and many students find the concepts so difficult that in 2018, the California State University system stopped requiring intermediate algebra for students not majoring in math and science.
Proponents say the classes teach data skills relevant to the 21st century - collecting and analyzing data on real-world topics, like voter polls and water usage - and engage students who might otherwise drop out of math and won’t need calculus in their careers. Another is “ Explorations in Data Science,” which has been taught to more than 160,000 students across more than 1,400 schools and districts, according to Jo Boaler, a Stanford University professor of math education who helped develop it at Youcubed, a Stanford research center, and also helped write the proposed California math framework. One popular course, “ Introduction to Data Science,” was developed at the University of California at Los Angeles and has been taken by 42,200 students across 151 high schools, according to its website. “Such students will have their career choices severely curtailed, at an early age, and perhaps without even realizing it.” “Giving high-school students the idea that it is OK to skimp on their math education is very dangerous,” stated a March letter from Santa Barbara’s physics department, flanked by similar complaints from computer science and mechanical engineering. But swaths of faculty members have been asking a UC academic-governance panel to rethink its decision, arguing that some of the newly permitted options - which bill themselves as data-science classes - do not impart the skills needed to major in science, engineering, math, or technology, according to correspondence obtained by The Chronicle.
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The results this year - the third full school year since the COVID-19 pandemic hit - are in some ways worse than last year, when the NWEA analysis showed students largely made academic gains that paralleled their growth pre-pandemic, said Karyn Lewis, director of the Center for School and Student Progress at NWEA, and the study’s co-author.Faculty members across the University of California system are staging a behind-the-scenes protest against an admissions policy they say risks leaving their students unprepared for college-level math.Ī few years ago, UC expanded the array of math classes that qualify applicants for a spot in the system.
Those numbers were compared with data on academic growth from three years before the pandemic. The study used data from about 6.5 million students who took the MAP Growth assessment in reading and math since the onset of the pandemic. “We’ve been trying to send the message that this is a multiyear, if not decades-long recovery period and is going to require some fundamental rethinking of the ways that not only we educate students but we think about how students are grouped and how we think about their learning,” he said. He said schools could group students based on their needs and provide targeted instruction, for example, adjusting groups as individuals progress. There are ways schools can take better advantage of their limited resources and time to boost learning, said Chase Nordengren, the group’s lead researcher for instructional strategies. New Mexico students awarded scholarships for pursuing healthcare careers
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