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Pencil rests on open study book with image of graph and math problems. For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University ...

For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University agreed to stay late after school to study math. They were preparing ...