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News and Notes

• Mathematics for Whom? The Top of High School Meets the Bottom of College
  by Phil Daro, SERP-San Francisco Field Site Director
  "All students deserve the chance to prepare for college. Furthermore, as children they deserve more than the chance; they deserve our determination to overcome any damage done to what they expect for themselves. They deserve pathways to college designed as preparation, not as obstacle courses more appropriate for selection than preparation." Read this paper commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Institute for Advanced Study.
• White Paper
  Aligning Science Standards with Classroom Practice
  by Suzanne Donovan, SERP Executive Director
  "The problem with existing science standards is broadly understood, and there are efforts under way to address the shortcomings." Download paper
  
• Word Generation is a SERP initiative that focuses on academic vocabulary, i.e., words that students are likely to encounter in textbooks and on tests, but not in spoken language. Learn more about the program or visit SERP's new Word Generation professional development web site.
  
  
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