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

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 ...

Middle schoolers' access to the course is stratified along racial, socioeconomic, and regional lines, new research finds.

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

California requires the State Board of Education to adopt at least five math programs in grades K-8. The board far surpassed ...

A new report from UCSD demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college level math courses.

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their ...

Cal State no longer will require all its general education math courses to have a strict intermediate algebra prerequisite — a policy that has long stymied students trying to transfer from community ...

America has plenty of talented people — but a UC San Diego study finds our schools are failing to educate them. And everyone ...

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 ...

Michigan State University has revised its general-education math requirement so that algebra is no longer required of all students. The revision reflects an increasing view on college campuses that ...