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From the AP News wire: “More high school students are enrolling in math and science classes<\/a>. … Overall, the percentage enrolling in math and science courses increased in all subjects except algebra I, a class many students now take in middle school. Yet while more are enrolling, the report also states that scores have largely stagnated.”<\/p>\n

See more at the “Condition of Education<\/a>” report site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the AP News wire: “More high school students are enrolling in math and science classes. … Overall, the percentage enrolling in math and science courses increased in all subjects except algebra I, a class many students now take in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-p4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":254,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=254","url_meta":{"origin":1554,"position":0},"title":"Math helps students in college science","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting study suggests that the most important thing in high school that could help students in college science courses is math. 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