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Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare High School Students for STEM
Key Finding:1.Common Core, prepare students “for the colleges most kids go to, meaning only left wing college only but not for the college most parents aspire to. Like christian colleges, would this stop that?2. students whose last high school math course was Algebra II or lower have less than a 40 percent chance of earning any kind of four-year college degree.3.elective public colleges and universities will likely have to lower the level of their introductory math courses to avoid (unacceptably high failure rates).4.‘college- and career-ready’ standards without asking the faculty who teach math at their own higher education institutions to do an analysis of Common Core’s definition of college readiness,
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