Schools are less likely to offer Latino and Black students early algebra, limiting odds they will get advanced courses and ...

NWEA, a K-12 assessment and research organization, released today a new research brief, "Unequal Access to 8th-Grade Algebra: How School Offerings and Placement Practices Limit Opportunity." The ...

Arizona high school students are entering college unprepared for advanced math, prompting a review of Algebra II standards. A task force recommends cutting down on the number of Algebra II topics to ...

Briana Hampton, a San Gabriel High School junior, is determined to get into a four-year university to achieve her dream of becoming a social worker or psychiatrist. But she feared she would fail a ...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why the national reaction was so strong to Andrew Hacker’s op-ed in last Sunday’s NY Times, “Is Algebra Necessary? ” After engaging with various blog posts and ...

THIS book, comprising vols. 2 and 3, is intended A to complete the school course and to provide a suitable introduction to higher work for those who are proceeding to the universities. Attention has ...

As Texas reconsiders whether all students should take algebra II to earn a high school diploma, it is bucking a national trend that it helped launch a decade ago toward more stringent math curriculum.

How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...

The Feb. 3 opinion piece, "Who Needs Remediation?," contains this sentence: "We now recognize that most people do not need to be fluent in advanced algebra in order to function well in our society.” ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Algebra tends to elicit a visceral reaction in most folks: You either love it or you hate it. Well, a new book is taking the argument to another level. College professor and ...