Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 28, 2008
State's Mandatory Algebra Law Is a Plan That Doesn't Add Up
A law recently approved by the state Department of Education will place all eighth grade students into Algebra 1, starting in 2010, whether they’re ready or not, writes Betty Raskoff Kazmin. - Forum Column
By Betty Raskoff Kazmin
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"It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
As a law student in the 1970s who had previously been a math teacher, I welcomed those words written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas in his 1969 op...
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