In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

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Latino and African-American students were less likely to pass algebra 1 and less likely to attend high schools that offer advanced math or science classes than their white and Asian peers, according ...

Fifty-one district schools don’t offer an algebra class in the eighth grade. City councilmembers and advocates say the ...

It used to be that algebra and other high-level math courses were limited to high schools, and even then only those students headed to college. But more and more algebra is popping up in middle ...

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 ...

This story was updated on Aug. 2, 2017. A new policy from the California State University system will soon allow some students to take math classes with pre-requisites other than intermediate algebra ...

Teachers can harness the design principles of games to cultivate students’ curiosity, encourage productive struggle, and make math work compelling.

Maryland may combine algebra and geometry courses for older students as part of a broader effort to improve performance in math across the state. A draft of the proposed policy shows that officials ...