The drive to get every student to take so-called college gateway courses has succeeded, a new federal study finds, but students taking Algebra 1 and Geometry classes are getting considerably less ...

Spurred by a succession of reports pointing to the importance of algebra as a gateway to college, educators and policymakers embraced “algebra for all” policies in the 1990s and began working to ...

A return to teaching all Cambridge eighth-graders algebra – the first step to advanced math classes in high school – was debated on three fronts Tuesday. There was a successful motion to hold a ...

Starting next school year, Evanston Township High School will place incoming freshmen into math classes purely based on their highest eighth-grade math score on the Measures of Academic Progress test.

It’s hard to find a class that matters more than algebra at Mendez Fundamental Intermediate in Santa Ana. Teachers and administrators work to funnel all eighth-graders into the course before they head ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. In the last few years, the Socorro Independent School District has been preparing its middle school ...

Every school day at 10:30 a.m., two dozen middle schoolers shuffle into a classroom at Warren Elementary on Chicago’s far south side. One by one, they boot up a Chromebook at their desks. Fourteen ...

My daughter is here for Christmas Break (and god dammit I miss her a lot) I'm in Los Angeles and she is a Freshman in Texas. We are planning her High School Math curriculum and she is doing rather ...

To Zeke Villalobos, x + y equals nothing but anxiety. He didn’t get algebra the first time he took it, and he’s having a hard time with it now. But as a high school senior, the 16-year-old San Juan ...

Few students in honors algebra take rigorous work Scores on 12th grade math and science tests are not improving despite increase in %22advanced%22 work Parents ...