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...College Board wants schools to produce better writers, so the New SAT will require an essay. The board thinks grammar is important, so the new test will ask students to fix poorly deployed gerunds and such. To encourage earlier advanced-math instruction, the New SAT will go beyond basic algebra and geometry for the first time to include Algebra II class material (remember negative exponents--q(-3), for instance?). The board, a powerful group of 4,300 educational institutions--including most of America's leading universities--has undertaken an unprecedented effort to push local school districts to alter their curriculums...
...Georgia, Clarke County schools' director of assessment Ginger Davis-Beck says that in anticipation of the revamped test, her district might split Grade 10 into a semester of geometry and a semester of Algebra II for students who didn't get to Algebra I until Grade 9; it would be an unorthodox move that could require hiring more teachers. In Ohio, curriculum specialist Jennifer Manoukian of the Sycamore school system, outside Cincinnati, feels uneasy about the prospect of grammar questions. "Research shows that direct instruction of grammar is not beneficial," she says. "The correlation between that kind of grammar instruction...
Ellen’s parents had her switch schools, but she never developed an interest in math and never took a math class in high school beyond Algebra...
...absence of available seats, late class shoppers overwhelmed Science Center 309 last Wednesday as they filled every unoccupied corner of the room. Students sat on the floor directly in front of the lecturer and on top of the radiator to hear the first lecture of Math 23a: Theoretical Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus...
...will be similar to the SAT II: Writing test and will include an essay question, the College Board announced last month. Analogies will be eliminated from test and replaced with critical reading passages from a variety of subjects, including science. The math section will include more advanced topics from Algebra II and quantitative comparison questions will be eliminated...