U.S. GIRLS TEAMS SCORE GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE MEDALS AT CHINA GIRLS MATH OLYMPIAD Second place overall for team of American high school girls at international math competition

BERKELEY, California – The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) announced today that one of the two U.S. teams that competed this week at the 9th annual China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO) has placed second, behind a team from China, in the overall standings among 48 teams of girls from about ten countries throughout the world. Of the eight high school girls on the two U.S. teams, seven students won top honors–five gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal–and one student earned an honorable mention at the international competition held in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Provence, China.

Gold medals were awarded to Shiyu (Jing-Jing) Li from Sunnyvale, CA, a graduate of Cupertino High School, who will enter the University of California, Berkeley this fall; Jae Eui Shin, a senior at Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts; Elizabeth Synge from Lexington, MA, a senior at Boston University Academy; Lynnelle Ye, who recently graduated from Palo Alto High School and will attend Stanford University; and Shijie Joy Zheng from Bellevue, Washington, a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. A silver medal was won by Cynthia Day from San Jose, CA, a junior at Lynbrook High School; a bronze medal was awarded to Adisa Kruayatidee from Stevenson Ranch, CA, who is a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy; and an honorable mention acknowledged Andi Wang from Stoneham, MA, a recent graduate of Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut, who will attend MIT this fall. The team that ranked second overall consisted of Jae Eui Shin, Elizabeth Synge, Lynnelle Ye, and Shijie Joy Zheng.

If a student tests out to have no aptitude for higher math they should be shown the results, and informed when the test is being offered again. Everyone is good at something. The schools should be assisting the students in learning where their skill lie. Part of doing that is flunking them out when they turn in failing work in a class that doesn’t suit them.

A good school will not pass a flunking student or cover up failure. People learn from failure and they need to learn fast. Either change behavior (study/get help) or change classes.

Telling students in OUSD they are incapable of learning such material is just setting them up for failure!

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The Black students have issues which greatly affect classroom performance – physical differences. We need to remember this when we are jacking up the high school graduation requirements and repeating all the nonsense about how everybody should be going to college.

People are different. OUSD and the other urban school districts are here to do well by their students, not to drive them out of school at 9th grade.

Brave New World. – and it’s a new thing that these onset of puberty ages are dropping.

My point is that it is more important to provide basic needs for all than to merely have some college prep and turn the majority of the black students into the prisons and welfare rolls. Thus I believe OUSD should fund basic swimming (water safe requirement)/driver’s ed/school nurses, etc at the expense of a broader college prep program.

I just don’t get they joy in having a few college students, while producing a mass of unemployables who are not water safe and have no driver’s license in CA.

Not that I don’t value the few OUSD students who go directly to Stanford or Ivy League. They are just not worth what OUSD does to the majority of it’s students.

It’s my opinion and mainly rhetoric. Perhaps OUSD’s left side of the Bell Curve are too far gone for basic training? Maybe we should openly short them for the benefit of the 4 year degree wanna-bes.

Brave New World.

You don’t need 2 years of math to get into a California Jr. College according to this taken from the net:

Transfer Admission Requirements
It is a common practice for students to transfer from one community college to another. Students even transfer to community colleges from four-year colleges and universities.

No matter what your situation is, the standards are the same for admission to any of California’s 110 community colleges. You will be admitted to the community college of your choice if you meet any of the following conditions:

You are 18 years of age or older, with or without a high school diploma.
You are a high school graduate.
You have the equivalent of a high school diploma.
If you meet any of the above conditions, then there is a community college program for you.

Jim Mordecai

Also, most can no longer get a good paying job with just a high school diploma. So Jr. College is at least necessary nowadays. You need at least 2 years of math to get into a Jr. College.

I suggest you look into the National Educational Standards, precisely what California just adopted last Monday: http://www.corestandards.org/
From the site: “The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college AND careers.”