Mesa Alta students see gains in math scores
May 09, 2019
By FARMINGTON DAILY TIMES
School saw significant improvement on its math scores last year
By: Mike Easterling
“Summers believes much of the credit for the gains in math scores by Mesa Alta students can be attributed to the Teach to One 360 program that was instituted at the school last year. He described it as essentially a math intervention support system in which a tailored curriculum is built for each student based on her or his needs. Only two other schools in the state are using Teach to One, he said.”
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