Thursday, September 09, 2010
In Our Schools - "Can’t do math, but passing calculus"
I think I need to have a "truth is stranger than fiction" category...
Michael Symons reports on New Jersey's CapitalQuickies blog:
"From the memo:
'The findings that result from the extensive data we collected and the portfolio information we reviewed is disturbing. While there were many struggling students whose teachers and counselors provided good evidence of work accomplished and a record of appropriate courses and local interventions, there were other students, unable ultimately to evidence even simple math skills, who were unimaginably recorded by their schools as succeeding in Algebra II or even Calculus.'"
