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 ...

With Algebra I often seen as a gateway course, online algebra classes can bridge the gap for rural students who are ready for advanced math but whose schools lack the resources for a formal class, ...

When eighth grade teacher Dean Dunkin gives algebra lessons, he's confronted by a worrisome reality: Many students aren't ready to learn the concepts. "I honestly have students that probably would ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

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 ...

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 ...