The San Francisco school board will vote on a plan to restore algebra as an option at all middle schools, more than a decade ...

Next year, sixth- and seventh-graders in HISD will enroll in advanced math classes, preparing more students to take Algebra 1 ...

San Francisco school officials have released a long-awaited plan that allows proficient eighth-graders to skip ahead to ...

Houston ISD will place all sixth and seventh graders on an accelerated math pathway starting this fall, aiming for every student to take Algebra I by eighth grade. The initiative, part of the district ...

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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 to satisfy the math requirements they ...

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.

A popular humorist and avowed mathphobe once declared that in real life, there’s no such thing as algebra. Kathie Wilson knows better. Most of the students in her 8th grade class will be thrust into ...

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 ...