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The Premier League's probe into Manchester City's financial dealings has uncovered damning evidence that suggests the club intentionally misled authorities to gain an unfair advantage over their rivals. It is alleged that City inflated the value of their sponsorship deals, including those with Etihad Airways and other related entities, in order to boost their financial reserves and escape scrutiny. This unethical behavior, if proven true, could result in severe sanctions being imposed on the club, including potential points deductions and financial penalties.How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra ? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the question that’s at the heart of a fraught national debate: Who should get to take a high school level math class in their final year of middle school ? Portland Public Schools is the latest urban school district to take a swing at answering that question, after previous high-profile attempts in New York City and San Francisco yielded no measurable improvement in two different but equally important objectives: Diversifying middle school algebra classes and making sure that advanced math students leave eighth grade with a solid grasp on foundational algebraic concepts. The district’s experiment unfolds daily in Ernest Yago’s cheerfully cluttered math classroom at Faubion PK-8 School in Northeast Portland. Yago, a veteran math teacher, is piloting a new math and science-focused, hands-on elective that some seventh graders at his school take alongside their regular math class. So far, Portland’s new approach has narrowed the pool of students allowed to start high school math in eighth grade, though it is only in its first few months. And it is not yet clear whether the district has managed to boost the racial and ethnic diversity of those taking part. The hope is that the course Yago is debuting will broaden the spectrum of scholars in eighth grade algebra. By double-dosing students with math concepts in seventh grade — couched in an approach that stresses projects with real-world applications over worksheets — the thinking is they will be better prepared for the rigors of eighth grade algebra. In addition to Faubion, three K-8 schools on the city’s east side — Bridger-Creative Science, Astor and Cesar Chavez — plus Robert Gray Middle School on the west side are offering the elective. “I think that for some kids, algebra in eighth is pushing too fast, but there are a select few kids that are motivated and ready to do a high school class in eighth grade,” Yago said. “I want to honor that and make sure we offer it.” Kids who aren’t instinctively gifted mathematicians need to have the right background before jumping into algebra in eighth grade, Yago said. And he knows firsthand that that hasn’t always been the case, particularly in the post-pandemic years, when students returned to school still glued to their screens. Some kids come into eighth grade algebra in “la-la land,” with big holes in the background they need to succeed in the class, Yago said. That means taking time out of a packed curriculum to revisit the content they’ve missed, he added, like how to make a box plot and calculate a five number summary . “I try my best to cover what they need [in eighth grade algebra],’ but sometimes you have to fill in holes to make that progress, and then you are behind in curricular content,” he said. He’s got some hope “a good chunk” of the seventh graders in his math-and-science elective will be better prepared to tackle algebra next year, after getting more exposure to the material. After their current unit on graphing wraps up, he said, they’ll move on to a geometry unit, using proportional reasoning, expressions and equations to create blueprints for a scale model of a home they’ll design and build. Yago and his fellow teachers at the pilot schools are developing the curriculum for the course over the course of the school year, with help from two high school math teachers with experience teaching hands-on math. Yago’s students said they had varying reasons for taking his math elective. Some said they’d been put there or recommended for entry by teachers. Others said they want careers in the sciences. Aspiring engineers, doctors and computer programmers said they know taking algebra in eighth grade would help launch them on that path. “I want to be a pilot, and you need math for that,” said Liam Kaczenski, 12. He said he is determined to earn good enough grades in Yago’s class to qualify for algebra next year. For his graphing project, he charted how many siblings each of his classmates had and compared that against their stress level, hypothesizing that the more brothers and sisters, the higher the angst would be. It was true for him, he said, pointing at his twin sister Ana, who is also in Yago’s class. “I struggle with math sometimes,” Ana said. “But I want to be ahead in high school. This class helps me understand more topics.” Taking algebra in eighth grade sets students like the Kaczenski twins up for geometry in ninth grade, advanced algebra by 10th grade, pre-calculus in 11th grade and calculus by their senior year. Calculus is viewed both as a calling card for elite colleges and a prerequisite for eventual employment in the lucrative and growing engineering and technology industries. Waiting until ninth grade to start algebra means that, to get to calculus by senior year, students either have to double up on math or seek summer credits. Nationally and in Portland, white and Asian students have historically been overrepresented in advanced math classes and have outperformed their Black, Latino and Indigenous peers. In a bid to change that dynamic, San Francisco tried banning eighth grade algebra completely, a path Portland seriously considered emulating, to the chagrin of some parents . They argued that without an in-school option available, well-off families would hire private tutors for their children, exacerbating inequity instead of alleviating it. Then San Francisco Unified School District officials reversed course, after a decade’s worth of no algebra in middle school led to little improvement in equity, and Portland, too, pivoted. New York City, meanwhile, took the opposite tack, making algebra available to all eighth graders. But there too, Black and Latino students still scored way below their white and Asian counterparts. The district, the nation’s largest, has now shifted its focus to improving ninth grade algebra instruction. Portland is seeking to thread the needle, said Joanna Tobin, the district’s senior director for middle grade core academics. “We were just really frustrated with the research and the nationwide dilemma,” Tobin said. “We want to hold onto an advanced pathway and support our students getting there, if that’s their desire, and we also really do value grade level work.” In addition to piloting the seventh grade math and science elective, Portland raised the bar for which seventh graders get to take “compacted math,” a fast-track class that is the historical precursor to eighth grade algebra. It compresses the seventh and eighth grade math curriculums mostly into a single year. With the bar set higher this year, only about one-third of the district’s 2,870 seventh graders performed well enough on standardized tests to gain automatic entry into compacted math, compared to about half of last year’s seventh grade class, Tobin said. Under the district’s new system, entry doesn’t hinge solely on a high-stakes test, which sets Portland apart from the bulk of middle schools in the United States that offer algebra in eighth grade. A second pathway into compacted math — a teacher recommendation or parent request that a student be allowed to demonstrate that they are ready for the material even though their test scores are below the cutoff — appears to be far more lightly used thus far. Some parents have complained that the district was slow to get the word out about that option. Just 140 students completed a “performance task” to try to place into compacted math after missing the quiz and test cutoffs. Only 20 of that group ultimately joined the advanced class. (A sample question from the performance task: Imagine that your family ate one third of a pan of brownies and that you then gave six friends equal portions of the leftovers. How much of the total pan did each friend get. Please show your work!). “When you put up these roadblocks to getting into more advanced classes, you know who will make it in,” said David Stein, whose sixth grade daughter was able to test into seventh grade compacted math after a last minute scramble. “It will be the parents who get the emails, are able to process them and go through the effort to make sure their kid is eligible and enrolled in the program.” Portland doesn’t yet have good data on the demographics of who made it into compacted math this year, as compared with years past because of technical glitches, Tobin said. But she acknowledged that for now, “when it comes to the demographics, [compacted math] is not yet reflective of the diversity of our communities. Some of this will be a journey, and we’ll be seeing the growth at high school.” Every Portland middle school is offering at least one way into eighth grade algebra — either the seventh grade compacted math class or the career-related math elective — but it’s not clear yet that budgets or student interest will support every school eventually being able to offer both options, Tobin said. Yago, for his part, said he’d like to see the math and science elective expanded to eighth graders not taking algebra, on the theory that it will make them better prepared for ninth grade. “It’s made me rethink how to go about teaching math, with more inquiry and projects,” said Yago, who began teaching in Portland as a substitute nearly 30 years ago. “But it all does depend on the kids you have and the experience they have coming to you.” — Julia Silverman covers K-12 education for The Oregonian/OregonLive. Reach her via email at jsilverman@oregonian.com . Follow her on x.com at @jrlsilverman.
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