Delays aren't enough to help students who aren't ready to take Algebra 1 in 8th grade, a new analysis suggests.

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 ...

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 ...

As recently as 1990, taking algebra in eighth grade was unique. That has changed dramatically in recent years, and now more eighth graders take algebra than any other math class. Enrollment in ...

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A recent study reveals that while high schools largely sort students into math and science classes based on academic readiness, social pressures from wealthier families also heavily dictate who gets ...

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on ...

A year ago, a report from the University of California San Diego made major waves when it showed that a rising share of its incoming freshmen had math skills that were below the high school level. Was ...

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 ...