California may soon test children on math as early as kindergarten in effort to curb dismal scores

A bill moving through the California Legislature would assess students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an ...
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California may test kindergarteners in math to boost scores

California's proposed Senate Bill 1067 mandates early math assessments for kindergarteners to address low proficiency rates.
Los Angeles Times

Low math and English scores mark the nation’s report card, California and L.A. included

Nationally, math and English scores were flat or fell. LAUSD did better in fourth-grade math, a bright spot. Students are reading less for pleasure. Instead of hoped-for improvements from pandemic-era ...
KQED

‘Not a Math Person’: How to Remove Obstacles to Learning Math

Stanford math education professor Jo Boaler spends a lot of time worrying about how math education in the United States traumatizes kids. Recently, a colleague’s 7-year-old came home from school and ...
Chronicle

A Grueling Math Test So Hard, Almost No One Gets a Perfect Score

Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...
American Enterprise Institute

Recent National Test Data (NAEP, SAT) Refute the Claim That “there Just Aren’t Gender Differences in Math Performance”

Claims are often made by gender activists like UW-Madison psychology professor Janet Hyde that “There just aren’t gender differences anymore in math performance. So parents and teachers need to revise ...