As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

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There is a student who self-studied the entire high school curriculum from 'The Standard of Mathematics' when he was just a first-year middle schooler. He is Yoon Seong-geun, a third-year student at ...