It is looking like New York is planning to make Regents exams optional for the foreseeable future. FOX 5 NY's Arthur Chi'en takes a closer look at the proposal, and the alternative options that students will have.
Last year, teachers at 265 schools piloted the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum, which Chancellor David Banks is betting on to improve the city’s lagging math scores.
Students from more than 25 schools in three Bronx districts, including some that used Illustrative Math, scored an average failing 56.5 on the exam. That fell below last year’s Bronx borough average of 61. “If my students didn’t get something, we had to move on,” the teacher said. “There was no time allotted to pull kids aside and help them catch up. They were frustrated.”
But Wong, who did not take part in the pilot, recoils at the required uniformity: “There seems to be little leeway for teachers to adjust the curriculum based on our students’ needs. Everyone’s got to be teaching the same lesson on the same day in the same way.” the curriculum “is destined to flop,” largely because it assumes — wrongly — that students have already mastered the basic skills required to solve equations.
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