Lowell Sun Online by Sandra Stotsky January 6, 2014
When states adopted Common Core's mathematics standards, they were told (among other things) that these standards would make all high-school students "college- and-career ready" and strengthen the critical pipeline for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
However, with the exception of a few standards in trigonometry, the math standards end after Algebra II, as James Milgram, professor of mathematics emeritus at Stanford University, observed in "Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare High School Students for STEM," a report that we co-authored for the Pioneer Institute.
Who was responsible for telling Massachusetts employers when these standards were adopted in 2010 that Common Core includes no standards for precalculus or for getting to precalculus from a weak Algebra II?
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