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  "id": 13264,
  "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91577187/the-real-math-crisis-isnt-the-test-scores-its-the-test?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss",
  "title": "The real math crisis isn’t the test scores. It’s the test",
  "summary": "This past school year, Cambridge, Massachusetts, placed every eighth grader in Algebra I. It didn’t go well. Ultimately, more than 60% of rising ninth graders will repeat the course.  The consequences were immediate: weeping students, angry parents, and roiling debate about the rollout, teacher support, and tracking. Lost in the shuffle was this essential point: We teach obsolete rote math that adults don’t use, while missing entirely the math that defines our lives.   Let’s start",
  "authors": "Ted Dintersmith",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-23T12:33:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-25T05:10:48.796Z",
  "source_slug": "x-fast-company-tech",
  "source_name": "Fast Company Tech",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.fastcompany.com/technology",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13264",
  "original_url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91577187/the-real-math-crisis-isnt-the-test-scores-its-the-test?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}