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A new report by WestEd highlights three high schools—all supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—that have successfully implemented programs to prepare all of their students for college mathematics. The report, titled Rethinking High Schools: Supporting All Students to be College-Ready in Math, is the latest in the organization’s “Rethinking High School” series of reports on secondary school reform and redesign.

Thousands of high school freshmen across Michigan are failing Algebra I, the first of four math courses this class of students must take and pass to fulfill what are among the toughest graduation requirements in the
nation.
The failure rate -- estimated at 20% to 30% of about 113,000 freshmen -- has some predicting a crisis by the
time these students are juniors and must take Algebra II.
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The National Science Board reports that jobs in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields are outpacing overall job growth three to one. Yet according to a recent Government Accountability Office report, the number of U.S. students pursuing degrees in STEM areas has declined.
Read more about STEM field needs and find out what the National Mathematics Advisory Panel says needs to happen to change U.S. math education:
Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel

Here is the link to the MDE Math Wiki spaces, The pre and Post MME Math Content Expectations are also attached. This document can be useful for determining the content of the 1/2 credit of Algebra II and what is "practicable for students in the Personal Curriculum.

MDE Math Wiki Spaces Link
http://mi-math-companion.wikispaces.com/

Here is the powerpoint for today's webinar on Mathematics.

Using a national assessment to compare students in the United States to their international counterparts, Michigan students ranked 10th in mathematics and ninth in science, said a report released Wednesday. But the report showed none of the states could approach the performance of the top nations.