«If students have received negative feedback on assessments, if they've been placed in lower math tracks, or if they misunderstand the content, then oftentimes, they think they're bad at math,» Heller says. (gse.harvard.edu)
But the standards also assume that all high school students should pursue a high - level math track, studying quadratic equations, transformational geometry and logarithms. (nytimes.com)
Too many low - income, African - American and Latino students are shortchanged by math tracking, he said. (edsource.org)