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In Elementary School, Many Teachers Have a Shaky Grasp of Math. Can Preparation Programs Change That?

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When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. That has consequences.

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Don’t Call Them Test Companies: How the College Board and ACT Have Shifted Focus

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These days the leaders of the College Board, which runs the SAT, have been making a surprising argument—that colleges and parents should stop taking the scores of its signature test so seriously. In this new era, the College Board is testing a controversial new metric that has been labeled as an “ adversity score.”

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