California’s transformation in lowering of the bar,
and the removal of some framgnets of math
from the curriculum (pushing for teaching it when students are older)
and offering alternate classes to traditional
Math is nearly certain to lower the score for international tests,
if other nations do not adopt some of the same ideas.
I belevie this is now current policy, it has been voted in by the board
of educatoin, but there has been a lot of controversy and fights over it
so I could have missed something.
I am not saying that the scores we see in this post has any correelation
to the proposed changes, just that if they are kept, and if they go national
the US students may face international students who have taken more
advanced / foundatoinal mathmatics already.
These changes are not reflected in the reported test scores, so what impact the changes will have (whether positive or negative) has not yet been measured.
I belevie this is now current policy, it has been voted in by the board of educatoin, but there has been a lot of controversy and fights over it so I could have missed something.
I am not saying that the scores we see in this post has any correelation to the proposed changes, just that if they are kept, and if they go national the US students may face international students who have taken more advanced / foundatoinal mathmatics already.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-12/californ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/california...
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/california-adopts-c...