With a new law requiring all eighth-grade students to take algebra, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District is prepared to make the changes necessary; but the question lingers whether students can do ...

After a decade of debate and division, the San Francisco Unified School District is adding algebra back into its eighth grade curriculum at a third of its middle schools starting next year. "For fun, ...

A "design and build" shop for education at the University of Florida just received a $250,000 grant to build a teacher network to go along with a new tool introduced in 2013 to help students with ...

A new study out today finds that many of the nation's lowest-performing middle-schoolers are in way over their heads. They take algebra and other advanced math courses before they've mastered basic ...

The state Board of Education may decide Thursday that all high-school students must pass algebra II to graduate, adding Washington to the list of states ratcheting up their math requirements. If ...

Against the resolute push for higher academic standards geared toward preparing students for college, the Palo Alto High School math department has drawn a line in the sand. Don’t prepare all students ...