Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at ...

State and school district efforts to improve math instruction have added new fuel to long-running debates about when students should take Algebra 1. For students, the decision isn’t as simple as ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. If you’re an eighth grader who wants to take algebra, can you even take the class? The answer to ...

A new study of 55K students across the U.S. found 1 in 4 had strong enough 7th-grade scores but still missed out on the ...

Houston ISD will place all current in a new "accelerated math" pathway next year, expanding access to Algebra 1 before high school and more advanced coursework later on. Starting in the 2026-27 school ...

Eighth graders can be successful in Algebra 1, new research suggests—they just might need some extra support. The findings come from a study of San Francisco schools, which has had a turbulent history ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teacher writes an equation on a whiteboard during a maths lesson at a secondary school on December 1, 2014, in London, England.

BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific ...