Under the new blueprint, educators follow tightly scripted and rapid-paced lesson plans where students working in groups are expected to tackle problems and "discover" answers with little input from teachers.
It's alarming that we work for an agency that is seemingly okay mandating Illustrative Math when the data now officially shows how badly it hurts our students."
The steep decline overlapped with the city DOE piloting a new curriculum known as "Illustrative Mathematics" in 265 of the city's 420 high schools.
Ninety-three middle schools across every borough except Staten Island also are now using the curriculum in their classrooms.
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