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...Algebra Project is working the demand side of education--how can we get these students to make the demands on themselves, their peers," he said...
...Moses spoke to the COOL crowd about his work with the Algebra Project and what he refers to as "sharecropper education," or the system of educational inequity leftover from the years following the Civil...
...Moses said Project Algebra works against these lowered expectations by challenging students to advocate on their own behalf...
...district's curriculum and teaching methods. Some schools wiped out uninspired drills and work sheets in the younger grades, and high schools began pushing students to take three years each of rigorous college preparatory math and science. Before UTEP stepped in, just a small percentage of students took Algebra II and Chemistry; now more than half do. Compared with 1994, when just one school in the university-aided districts netted an exemplary rating on state exams, last year 18 did. Most important, the university ascribes this year's 3% increase in student enrollment to the partnership's efforts...
...other cases, it's the teachers who need tutoring. Working with a Los Angeles-area high school, a math professor from California State University, Dominguez Hills, spent weeks fashioning an algebra unit in which students would operate a fictive bakery. But half the teachers fell back on their familiar lesson plan. Why? They reportedly felt their algebra skills weren't sharp enough to let them field student questions...