Florida students must pass an end-of-course Algebra exam in order to graduate. More than half of state students taking the exam failed, so thousands are seeking out extra help.
Nashalie Nunez did fine in her Algebra 1 class at Cypress Creek High this past year, passing with a B average. But when she took Florida’s new algebra final exam, she failed. “It just overwhelmed me,” she said. The 14-year-old Orange County student said she might have been done in by the strangeness of taking a 160-minute exam on computer.
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