Analysis of Costs in an Algebra I Curriculum Effectiveness Study,

Author

Phillips; Andrea ; Pane; John F. ; Daugherty; Lindsay ; Karam; Rita

Year

2012

Publisher

RAND Corporation

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

16-Apr-2026

Keywords

Education

Description

Despite recent small gains in mathematics achievement among public school students, data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) continue to show very low mathematics proficiency rates for high school students. In 2009, only 3 percent of 12th-grade students reached an advanced level of performance, only 26 percent were performing at the proficient level or above, and 36 percent scored below the basic level (National Center for Education Statistics, 2010).

Furthermore, large gaps in the performance of students from different racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups persist on NAEP and other measures of academic achievement. The 2009 NAEP 12th-grade results (National...