All California eighth-graders in public school will have to take Algebra 1 beginning in 2011 under a policy approved Wednesday by the state Board of Education in an 8-1 vote. The board decided to make ...

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Jasson Martinez has come full circle at Santa Monica High School, returning as a math teacher to the campus where he ...

Under the Common Core State Standards, Algebra 1 is a much tougher course than what was taught previously in most states, teachers and standards experts say, in part because many of the concepts that ...

What does it say about our public school system when 82% of the high school students in a suburban county fail their Algebra 1 final exams? It implies quite strongly that our public schools are not ...

Throughout the pandemic, data from testing has shown that students are struggling in math, making less progress than they might have in other years. Teachers, too, have said that routines core to ...

For the third straight year, Socorro ISD middle schools were the top-performing schools in Algebra 1 across the El Paso ...

Cambridge school leaders presented a plan Tuesday evening to teach Algebra 1 to all eighth-grade students by 2025, following months of controversy over a district policy that limits options for ...

A little more than half of Montgomery County's 25 high schools had failure rates of more than 70 percent for the final exam in Algebra 1 in June, even after the district added 15 percentage points to ...

A new report from Brown University shows summer math camps helped Rhode Islanders boost their scores and skills. The report from the Annenberg Institute at Brown looked at Rhode Island’s 2024 Algebra ...

Martin Udengaard wants more for his son, and he doesn’t think Cambridge schools can deliver. Cambridge Public Schools no longer offers advanced math in middle school, something that could hinder his ...