> the reformed framework attempted to remedy achievement gaps by urging public schools to remove certain accelerated math tracks from middle school education. Boaler’s guidelines have become a basis for a statewide push to move these classes, specifically Algebra I, out of middle school.

Closing the achievement gap is only a good thing if you do it by helping the lower-achieving kids, not by leaving them alone and just holding back the higher-achieving kids, which is what this would do. This sounds like something out of Harrison Bergeron.