California will officially adopt a new "equity ... aims to "structure the teaching of the state’s math standards around ‘big ideas’ that integrate rather than isolate math concepts ...

If teachers don’t understand the content, Hyde said ... Only about 35% of California students met or exceeded math standards this year, only about 1 percentage point higher than the previous ...

Jerry Brown signed a bill calling for statewide academically rigorous content standards. In the four years since, there have been focus groups, advisory committee meetings and the public and official ...

“By making sure we were teaching not only content but also academic language changed everything ... Since 2014-15, the first year of the Smarter Balanced test, the percentage of California’s Latino ...