Envision runs four charters in Northern California, including one that piloted Khan Academy with a small program for remedial -
algebra students last summer.
Not exact matches
After two years, the schools were no longer required to hold weekly meetings for their planning teams; instead, unsuccessful
algebra teachers (those whose teaching allowed fewer than 15 percent of their
students to pass the end - of - course exam
last year) would be pulled out of their classes for eight days of in - depth training.
Last year, 11,340 more
students failed Regents
Algebra exams than in 2014, he found.
On
last spring's tests, about 45 percent of
students passed the 10th - grade English exam and only 40 percent of
students passed the
Algebra I test.
He questions whether his ratings were higher two years ago because he had a class of «rock star»
algebra honors
students, but fell
last year when he had less - skilled
students, many of them learning English.
The percentage of
students passing the state
algebra exam has increased dramatically, to nearly 90 percent
last year from 45 percent in 2009.
For example,
last year I worked with my high school principal and his assistant principal on how
students are working their way through
algebra as freshmen.
Students tackle an
algebra III problem during an AVID / TOPS class at East High School
last spring.
In New York City, home to the nation's largest public school system with 1.1 million pupils, just 52 percent of the
students who took
last year's statewide Regents test in
Algebra I passed, mirroring statistics elsewhere in the country.
For example, if a
student had trouble with graphing linear equations when you taught it
last week, assign the corresponding module from the Edmentum Courseware
Algebra I course to reteach it.