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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The purpose of all of the developmental mathematics courses is to support student success academically and beyond by advancing critical thinking and reasoning skills. Specifically in Algebra I, as a ...

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 ...

Update: The letters notifying parents and students as to whether that student passed the graduation-required Algebra 1 end-of-course exam have begun to arrive in home mailboxes. The letter doesn’t ...

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 ...

Fewer than one in three of Philadelphia School District students passed the state’s algebra exam last school year, and the system’s performance has worsened. To help stem the tide, the district — ...