what about algebra 1. the course called algebra. very often when we are thinking about the common core, the question is posed, what about algebra? the important thing i want to say is when california moved algebra in the eighth grade it was our best thinking and our vehicle moved towards equity. we wanted to have more students to have access. that was the well-intentioned desire that we believe in equity but now that we have data, we know that we are a district that believes in continuous cycles of improvement. now that we have data about how students are doing in algebra one, our 8th graders, how they are doing in algebra 1. the question is is this the best for our students. so we have to answer this question, how can we provide for the course and rigor for all of our students. >> since we've moved to 8th grade algebra, the primary courses is algebra 1 in 8 -grade and geometry in 9th grade. this is a move to address the algebra 1 being a gatekeeper and many students not getting the at some point -- opportunity to pass through that

we are taking algebra in the 8th grade and algebra 2 in the 10th grade and are they taking present e calculus in the 11th grade? >> most, yes they are. >> so we've kind of added an extra course anyway? in other words taking algebra in the 8th grade doesn't get you to calculus before 12-grade. >> not necessarily unless they take that compressed course where you take algebra 2 and precalculus combined. >> then they would be taking that in the 10th grade in the continuum i just described theoretically that's a lot of high achieving kids are taking now. okay, thank you. >> any other comments? i have a few comments on this. okay. first, so i think from my own personal experience i want to share with everything is my own experience is i took algebra twice. i understand it's very common or else people are trying to make me feel better. i went from an arithmetic class then to algebra. so i'm not beating myself because after the second year i kind of got it. but i can see how to jump didn't give me any foundation. but i am 56. let me speed it up a little bit. i also have three children in the

i teach algebra 2. i would like to comment, i'm more on commenting on the user approach on the common core and i'm volunteering to do them and i was very reticent and scared to take it on and had a lot of feels about how all this change and i started to get into it and i'm telling you, it is really rich. it has a lot of access points. what i hear a lot of fear from a parent that if tracking goes away that my accelerated and advanced kid is not going to wind up getting the kind of stuff they have gotten before. i have to tell you, what i saw in the unit that i taught at the high school level, it was just full of incredible rigor. it has a lot of access points. you can have kids that are super advanced doing things and allows for differentiation. i myself found it very difficult to do the whole unit. what i did was break it into all these different levels for kids. i this i that that is something to address or to say to the fears that we are not going to be able to get the kids on an an accelerated pace.

schooler 's access to math and science. 81% of asian students and 71% of white students had access to algebra, calculous, biology, chemistry and physics. in decision the minority students are much less likel moo be taught by first year teachers. >> for the first time we now identify patterns of educational inequality for certain sub groups of students. >> reporter: in his 2015 budget president obama asked for $69 million. nearly 90% of that money goes to funds to address the needs of disadvantaged, poor and minority students, students with disabilities and english language learners. >> joining us to discuss the department of education's new report on racial disparities in the classroom we turn to leticia smith evans, the director of education practice. she's also a former elementary schoolteacher. the chief operator officer and director of research at equation for change. a non-profit initiative to improve stem education. barbara, the deputy executive director of the national association for the education of young children, and in new york the proffer of education at new york university. prof

my son is learning algebra, using a tool to teach algebra, a game that he goes through.wesome piece is after he completes an activity, i get an e-mail as a parent and says how this is what your kid learned today. not only this is what they learned, but this is an activity you can do at home to reinforce what he learned. that is exciting because it makes me a better parent, helps me be more engaged. from a teacher standpoint, they can personalize learning to the needs of individual students. i'm a student standpoint, it is powerful because technology helps to create creators. we are not just helping students memorize facts. we are building solutions and creating new media and actually reinventing and redesigning their learning. >> that is hard to argue with. what kind of research as -- as a parent, i want to know what kind of research you are relying on to determine that so much digital is good for students and will not be too much. it has only been so long that we have had computers and tablets and phones in the classroom. how do we know that in the long run it is, indee

. >> another study out today finds that preschoolers can do basic algebra. reser researchers at johns hopkins university conducted the research, and they said that kids will use their natural instincts to fig yure out the equations. and they said that aptitude does not follow jegender lines, becae the boys and the girls each answered about the same number of questions correct in the test s. >>> and there is a new plan for people in washington, d.c. to be dealing with mental health and anxiety and depression. >> this comes after one man said that his mental illness was not identified or treated early. >> it was pretty bad. it was almost over. >> reporter: norman jones suffers from anxiety and depression, but never sought help until the 30s. >> fi had known the signs and the symptoms and my family, and if they had known the signs and the symptoms, and you know, avoided lost time, and it has been years. >> reporter: and the experts say that jones' story is not unique. they point the two barriers that keep young people, particularly young people from getting the

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. >> in your article you say when a child earns a b in algebra 1, what does that "b" represent?> what does your kid snow when your kid brings that "b" home you're left to say okay, well, i don't know, can he do fractions, does he know what decimals are? switching over to a standard space grading system would really help us find out if a kid has mastfully a school versus what does he know, what doesn't he snow. >> let me show what you're saying when you would grade someone on mastery or knowledge. you say that you would determine if a kid is proficient or advanced and so instead of saying, for example, in this case zoe got 80% on her home work or quiz, you would say not proficient, partially proficient or advanced. >> and i really liked -- i really wish i had used the word mastery. the key should be does the kid have mastery of a skill? can they use in the new applications? >> but isn't that subjective as well, though? >> it's less subjective than sending home one brigade that covers everything from writing to language to can they use grammar, do they know how the ask for help. a

algebraic formulas aren't going anywhere. finally, no more of the 2,400 score. the top score for the s.a.t.s will once again be 1,600. >> ah, cecilia. if these big changes are about fairness, why not make them immediately? >> reporter: they don't take place for another two years, 2016. the testers are telling us, this is to give teachers and students time to prepare. a lot of people are saying the changes, the sweeping overhaul, the s.a.t.s could make this already difficult test even tougher. >> the goal is for children of all economic backgrounds. thank you so much, cecilia vega, reporting in tonight. >>> next, we turn to the crisis in ukraine. the superpowers are talking. but is the danger of an all-out russian invasion still looming? abc's chief global affairs correspondent, martha raddatz, in paris, tonight, for those critical talks. >> reporter: falshpoints in a red-hot crisis. after putin's forces took over part of ukraine, today, thousands of demonstrators showed the world their support for russia, storming past riot police to take over a government build

and my algebra and algebra ii classes as well as geometry for math, i felt more than prepared me for that section of the exam. host: ok. and you did well, you said? caller: i got just over 2000 on the score. host: what colleges -- have you been accepted to any colleges? caller: not yet. i just finished doing my applications. host: what schools are you applying to? caller: umass, boston -- all the umasses. i am trying to stay local. host: cost of college? caller: not so much cost. i've never really been interested in going for. -- going far. host: we will keep getting your experience with the sat as the college board announces changes to the test that will be taking pace in 2016. "the star-ledger" out of new jersey has this headline. mission is to prove himself to the gop base." "the governor will be addressing as thee as the -- cpac bridge scandal lingers and rivals watched." "the washington post" has this headline. "republicans find resistance to christie bid." new washington post-abc news poll found that three in 10 of all republicans say they would not vote for her jersey governor

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. >> using by algebra, adding those numbers up, it's close to the full length of the plane. they do seem awfully large to me, and how did they miss them during the aerial search if they are that large? i am encouraged by the fact that they're close to the last known position. i can't stress how important that is. one of the lessons we learned from air france 447 is you should always look close to the last known position. air france wasn't far from that, and it was within that 20 kilometer circle. but if those pieces are that large, which is odd, how could they have been missed in the aerial search, unless they sank? >> the fact that they're so large, you're saying it's possible they're from a plane, it just raises questions why they were missed. but is it possible that large of a chunk of plane would be in tact? >> it would surprise me, because air france, it was hard to find anything much bigger than a desk. >> really, it broke up that much? >> yeah, it was pretty much obliterated into smaller pieces. those are pretty large chunks of aircraft and it would suggest if it land

algebra is not just about numbers and formulas. it is also about the physical space of geometry.need to do in this country to make math cool? >> a place like this where they can touch it and feel it. i am always looking for toys to keep their brain going. otherwise, they are just under little machines. >> throw them into the pacific ocean. >> i will do that. >> expecting kids to get math skills in school but we never show them what to connect to in the real world. we never show them the light at the end of the tile. we are here to show people the beauty of application and rely on math teachers who get skills. >> what i will do for mathematics. >> we here on "lunch money" are not the only ones who love pi. >> i am excited about pi day, the 14th of march. >> one more time? >> 3/14. >> 3.1415. it is one of our favorite holidays. we are known for our pies. key lime pie, brooklyn's milk bars grasshopper pie. if you order any pie, you get to send went to a friend for $3.14. >> that is the shipping? it costs a lot more than three dollars. >> if you buy the first pie at regular price, th

can you do algebra? white take away red equals what? three. [laughs] white take away red... cyan. gives cyan. shall i do that again? yeah. there's your white. now, i'm gonna take the red away from it. watch where my finger is. i'll take the red away. whoops. [laughter] and what's it turned into? cyan. cyan. did you ever wonder why the sea water is a cyan color? it's green and blue. how many people have never wondered that? "so, well, it's cyan--" no, no, no, no, there's a reason why it had to be a cyan. can we have the lights please, ted? sure. -- it turns out that seawater, any kind of water, absorbs, like mad, infrared. in fact, if you take an infrared light and shine it on water, it'll heat up very, very quickly. and it also absorbs a lot of red. so when the sunlight comes down, all the colors, yeah, hits the water. guess what color gets absorbed more than any other. red. no. no, not green. okay. let's try-- let me give you a hint then. begins with r, ends with d. red. yeah, red. good. okay. some people said green. it turns out the red gets absorbed. when the red gets absorbed,

americans and 71% of whites they attend schools where they have the full range of math and science, algebra one, two. calculous, ge geometry and phys. but only 57% of black students and 67% of latino students have access. they don't have the same opportunity. the data does not explain why the disparity exists but it does underscore when it comes to equal opportunities for education success our nation still has a long ways to go. >> what have we learned about the quality of teachers from this report? >> the report indicates that you tipped to find more new teachers, teachers who don't have the right certification in low income areas, latinos, blacks, they have to deal with those circumstances whereas whites less. the inequality goes across the board whether it's education, the quality of the building, the certifications of the teachers. >> suspension were free schoo p? >> the reason why they think that happens is because you have less-trained pre-k teachers. there is no indication that kids act out differently. it's the way teachers respond and train something different compared to adult who

this means algebra 1 geometrical gentleman 2 chemicals and physics.ever 67% of latino students have access to the full range. data does not explain why these disparities, whether it's course work or preschool differences, it does underscore when it comes to equal opportunities for education success our nation still has a way to go. >> david shuster reporting there. >>> one of the most exciting sports weekends of the year is living up to the hype. michael eaves joins us with more on march madness. this is the time of the year when employers will notice productivity dropping a little. >> the building here in our studio in new york i'm just saying. since the time duke won back to back ncaa tournaments 1991, 1992, the blue devils have pretty much been the march madness team you love or you hate. either way, when it comes to a cinderella team, there's no bigger target than duke. little known and 14 seeded mercer university, the bears met in ra raleigh, north carolina. if you want to know how the mercer players felt about their upset, he was dancing, it was

this means algebra one, geomet geometry, chemistry and my favorite physics. only 57% of black students and 67% of latino students have access to the full range. even if they're qualified. if they want to take a physics class or biology class they don't have the same opportunity in their school district. the data does not explain why the disparity exists, but our nation still has work to do. >> david, what does crunching the numbers show about the quality of teachers. >> reporter: it shows in the example of preschool. they believe there were higher incidents of suspensions of african-american preschooler were teachers. you don't have as many trained teachers, trained instructors as you do in wealthier school districts. it's not that the kids are behaving differently but it's the response from the teachers and school districts. >> thank you so much. >>> well, more signs of the middle class squeeze. a new study shows that it's not just poor people who are living from paycheck to paycheck. real money's ali velshi joins us. good evening, what is happening here? >>

algebraic formulas aren't going anywhere. finally, no more of this 2400 score. prize for the s.a.t.'s will once again be 1600. yet another change, the calculator. right now students can use it throughout the entire math portion of the exam. under the new test, you can just use it in parts. people are saying the sweeping overhauls to the s.a.t. could make this already difficult test even tougher. cecilia vega, abc news, glendale, california. >> interesting changes for sure. now students won't be penalized anymore for guessing wrong, because that apparently introduced a whole new level of strategy with what a student really does or doesn't know. >> this is how strategically getting through the test, not just making sure you know everything right. good news is a lot of colleges believe the high school tests are a much better predictor. some of them are going for s.a.t. or a.c.t. optional policies for their applicants. >> and they will be available on paper and commuter. right now, they are only available for most places on computer. >> these are the prep classes i

. >>> frank, president obama seems to be a student trying to solve a complicated algebraic problem whenmes to foreign policy. paul ryan's wishy-washy response to congresswoman lee implying he was a racist is clearly why these attacks continue. republicans don't fight back. >> bill, i hope you can get judge adams off the bench. sentencing a serial child molester to one year in jail is r reprehensible. >> we kngt be having 6-year-old girls or boys brutalized for years by monitsters and judges letting them off with light sentences. >> wendy, bill, thank you for exposing judge brent adams. i live in his county and agree he should be impeached and lose his pension. well, you and your friends should start organizing, wendy, that can be done. but you've got to do it out there. gary, bill, i know of no other media person who fights to protect children the way you do. i'm impressed. another from morrisville, north carolina, killing jesus has enhanced my faith. i've read all of your history books, bill, and they have taught me much. kenny from cheyenne, wyoming. my son john is 8. really enjoyed k

. >>> frank, president obama seems to be a student trying to solve a complicated algebraic problem whenlicy. paul ryan's wishy-washy response to congresswoman lee implying he was a racist is clearly why these attacks continue. republicans don't fight back. >> bill, i hope you can get judge adams off the bench. sentencing a serial child molester to one year in jail is r reprehensible. >> we kngt be having 6-year-old girls or boys brutalized for years by monitsters and judges letting them off with light sentences. >> wendy, bill, thank you for exposing judge brent adams. i live in his county and agree he should be impeached and lose his pension. well, you and your friends should start organizing, wendy, that can be done. but you've got to do it out there. gary, bill, i know of no other media person who fights to protect children the way you do. i'm impressed. another from morrisville, north carolina, killing jesus has enhanced my faith. i've read all of your history books, bill, and they have taught me much. kenny from cheyenne, wyoming. my son john is 8. really enjoyed kennedy's last day

by the same standards as all other high schoolers in indiana, which is a good thing according to algebra teacher kandas boozer. she says it forces teachers to have high expectations for students in spite of difficult circumstances. >> i expect them to always give 100% no matter what that looks like. everybody is at a different level, so i just want to make sure they give me everything they have. >> reporter: montaque quentrel koonce is one recent graduate who had his fair share of challenges. a former dropout, koonce came to the excel center after being laid off from his job on a assembly line and struggling to find a place to live. >> there was two things i'm terrified of, you know being homeless, i've never been homeless in my life, and having to do math. so i had to confront both of those fears at the same time >> reporter: koonce studied hard, graduated with a 3.2 g.p.a, and later found a job at a packaging warehouse for amazon. for a man who hadn't been in a classroom in more than 30 years, he found the teachers to be patient and encouraging and felt he succeeded, in part, because h

. >> just using my good old algebra, adding those numbers up that's close to the full-length of the plane depending on how you look at it. they do seem awfully large to me. if they're that large how did they miss them during the aerial search? i am encouraged by the fact that they're close to the last known position. i can't stress how important that is. one of the lessons we learned from air france 447 is that you should always look close to the lkp, last known position. air france wasn't far from that. it was within that 20 kilometer circle. so i'm enthused by that. but if those pieces are that large, which is odd, how could they have been missed in the aerial search unless they sank? how do you do that? >> david, the fact they're so large, you're saying it's possible they're from a plane. that just raises questions about why they were missed. is it possible that that large a chunk of plane would be intact? >> it would surprise me. because air france it was hard to find anything much bigger than a desk. >> really? it broke up that much? >> yeah. pretty much obliterated into smaller piec

it's just writing down should you know this part of algebra? should you know trigonometric functions? should you know be able to recognize a graph of this type? and doing that very well is hard because there are certain dependencies, if you teach it in the wrong order, if you try and teach too much at once, too much too early, which the u.s. was doing a lot of that, it can be very, very poor. and if you compare we have 50 of these things and there was quite a bit of divergence. some states had trigonometry, some didn't. some had pie charts, some didn't. so, ironically, what had happened was the textbook companies had gone in and told the committees that make these things up that they should add things over time. and so we had math textbooks over double the size of any of the asian countries. and we had the ordering in almost every one of our 50 which is strange. you think if you had 50, one of them would randomly be really, really well ordered. some were more ambitious than others. so, for example, being high, that is, having the twelfth grade

mathematics and algebra is not just about numbers.lso almost in every instance about the physical space of geometry. what do we need to do in this country to turn around to make math cool? >> it is great to have places like this where they can touch and feel it. i am always looking for toys to keep their brain going. >> do you let them do the machines? throw them in the pacific ocean. >> i do that, too. gete are expecting kids to the math skills in school but we never show them what they connect to in the water -- in the real world. we are here to show them the beauty in application and we rely on the grade math teachers to give them the skills. >> what i will do for mathematics. >> math is fun, math is cool, and, tom, you might meet heidi klum. >> we come. hypotenuse -- we come. --compared hypotenuses. she was going to do something in new york and she was scoping it out for kids and we had a really fascinating conversation about her paranoia of keeping her kids up to date with academics, it and particularly math. it was really intere

it's just writing down should you know this part of algebra? should you know trigonometric functions? should you know be able to recognize a graph of this type? and doing that very well is hard because there are certain dependencies, if you teach it in the wrong order, if you try and teach too much at once, too much too early, which the u.s. was doing a lot of that, it can be very, very poor. and if you compare we have 50 of these things and there was quite a bit of divergence. some states had trigonometry, some didn't. some had pie charts, some didn't. so, ironically, what had happened was the textbook companies had gone in and told the committees that make these things up that they should add things over time. and so we had math textbooks over double the size of any of the asian countries. and we had the ordering in almost every one of our 50 which is strange. you think if you had 50, one of them would randomly be really, really well ordered. some were more ambitious than others. so, for example, being high, that is, having the twelfth grade

algebra 1, calculus, physics. 57 frz of black students and 67% of latino students attend schools with access. course work, preschool suspenses - it doesn't explain why it exists. it underscores that when it comes to equal opportunities, our nation has a way to go. >> a social worker is making history with the women's right campaign in pakistan, accusing that country's justice system of ignoring domestic violence. as simmonds report, she's setting up an all-women's youringa. >> a sick woman who is mourning the loss of her daughter. her son tries to comfort her. her sister was 12 when married. 10 years later, she's dead, the victim of an acid attack. it was a slow painful death. she made her brother make this recording on her mobile phone before she passed away. >> she accused her husbands, mother and father of attacking her. >> i want them to be banned in the same way i have been banned. >> it was her dying wish. she wanted justice. in this country, how can we as poor people get justice for her. it's a question without a positive answer in a place where women are rarely seen. >> this i

of all black high school students attend schools before range of math and science courses such as algebratwo and chemistry compared to seventy percent of white students black students are also four times as likely as white students to attend schools where one fifth of teachers don't meet state requirements students were three times as likely to attend these schools basically this means if you're a minority you're almost assured of a significantly lower quality education than caucasian students perhaps what's most disconcerting is that these stats only reveal a small picture of america's growing trend of school resegregation and i don't say that lightly see according to the two thousand and thirteen study published in the american sociological review the factors. driving resegregation have grown increasingly stronger over the past few decades consider that nine hundred sixty eight and the year desegregation was fully enforced roughly seventy seven percent of black students and fifty five percent of latino students attended schools that were more than half minority populations but by two th

nearly failed algebra and then my vice principal let me graduate in but i had to go back and make a course you think is more bullying though we just know more about it and. i think we know more about it now i think we've become more culturally intolerance of it than ever before it used to be you know you each or four food groups you toughen up when you go to school the charles atlas ad was in the back of the magazine so if you're the skinny guy getting sand kicked in your face you're supposed to just work out not to solve all your problems but we don't really know we we know that that's not true anymore but it's a terrible thing bullying on the is so yeah it's a terrible thing yeah that's a that's a that's a basic human characteristic to sort of you know exert your superiority over something that's weaker as a young and tone than forty is young actor do you ever desire to be the romantic lead in the film well again i i like to play parts that i believe people can organically previous to why i don't think that i play the conventional romantic role i'm not going to do. you know the lake hous

is then should you can has been finding algebra strong words like the backing of verified information. aggression is the word that you often hear in the u.s. media and from u.s. officials with regard to russia's presence in ukraine what they fail to show is the aggression. it's very difficult to talk about aggression when you show thousands of people cheering for russia in different parts of ukraine right maybe that's why you don't see this kind of footage on us t.v. very often but if you do see this coverage in which russia's military presence there in itself is presented as an intervention what the end curs and pundits often fail to mention is that russian ukraine have an agreement under which russia has a lot to deploy twenty five thousand troops in ukraine it now has presumably sixteen thousand or so so you get a kick picture where the u.s. presents anything that goes against the interests of those who took power in kiev as an aggression and the revolution there as this peaceful takeover of power. these brave ukrainians took to the streets in order to peacefully against tyranny. t