A high school student is tutored in algebra. Tutors and teachers report that more students struggled in the course this academic year. Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images The ...

EdSource · From housing to basketball, Fresno schools invest in the whole child High school math, and algebra, in particular, is in crisis. Although some students thrive on the pathway to calculus, ...

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 ...

Should all students take Algebra 2? Florida seemed to say “no” this spring with the passage of a law striking it from graduation requirements. Texas said much the same in legislation Republican Gov.

I got an A in algebra II, I think. That was long ago. I do know that I have long since forgotten whatever I learned in that course and have never used it since. Later, he explains what mathematics is ...

Students graph linear equations in Zach Loy’s ninth-grade algebra class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

Education reformers often bemoan that schools never shed programs that are no longer needed or effective. New school initiatives are consequently layered on top of past practices, which means schools ...

A tug of war in San Francisco over whether to teach algebra in eighth or ninth grade gets at wider national questions about serving all students fairly. By Soumya Karlamangla How to make algebra ...

University of California faculty and administrators have been debating a change to required courses that sounds like a small issue, but that should have the academic sphere asking these questions ...

One of the most useless questions you can ask a kid is, What do you want to be when you grow up? The more useful question is: What are you good at? But schools aren’t giving kids enough of a chance to ...