Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ725958
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Nov-1
Pages: 4
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
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Why Do Students Drop Advanced Mathematics?
Horn, Ilana
Educational Leadership, v62 n3 p61-64 Nov 2004
Students, especially black, Latino and Native American youth and students of low socio-economic status drop out of advanced mathematics. Teachers must coordinate their expectations, their knowledge of students and their teaching practices in order to stop struggling students from dropping out of advanced math classes.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Advanced Courses, Dropouts, Mathematics Instruction, Hispanic Americans, Socioeconomic Status, African Americans, American Indians
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1703 N. Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311. Web site: http://www.ascd.org.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
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Audience: Administrators
Language: English
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