In 2014, the San Francisco school board removed Algebra 1 from middle school because it seemed to be exacerbating racial inequities. But when math test scores didn’t improve for the district’s Black ...

The San Francisco school board approved a plan to restore algebra as an option at all middle schools, more than a decade after it was removed over equity concerns. By Dana Goldstein The San Francisco ...

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Black and Latino students are much less likely to have early access to Algebra 1 than their white and Asian peers—even when they’re in the same schools, and have similarly high math scores, according ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

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As artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly mediate our social world, regulators rush to protect citizens from potential AI harms. Many AI regulations focus on assessing potentially biased ...

One of the landmarks of Kyoto, the home of Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara, is the Kamo River. At certain points, there are stepping stones that allow residents to cross the river away from ...

People in measure theory find it best to work with, not arbitrary measurable spaces, but certain nice ones called standard Borel spaces. I’ve used them myself. a finite or countably infinite set with ...

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, ...