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Reforming the Math Hierarchy: Policy, Practice, and the Politics of Equity in Access and Pathways

Wed, April 8, 3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (3:45 to 5:15pm PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 9

Session Type: Paper Session

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This session explores how mathematics tracking reforms emerge, evolve, and encounter resistance across diverse educational systems. Drawing on research from the United States and Canada, the five papers examine how policies intended to expand access to advanced coursework intersect with institutional structures, political discourse, and student experience. Using qualitative, critical policy, and quantitative methods, the studies illuminate how debates over placement, pathways, and destreaming reflect broader struggles over merit, equity, and belonging. Together, they reveal the durability of tracking logics—even amid reform—and the consequences for students’ academic and emotional well-being. The session advances a cross-context understanding of how mathematics policy and practice can reconfigure opportunity toward greater equity.

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