A 12th grade student in Los Angeles completes work in a class to prepare for college math and statistics. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) California students’ math scores have lagged for years and ...

When I decided to read every word of California’s 1,000-page proposal to transform math education in public schools, I learned that even speculative and unproved ideas can end up as official ...

California students’ math scores have lagged for years and only gotten worse during the pandemic. The California State Board of Education has the job of adopting K-12 curriculum frameworks in ...

The California Mathematics Framework (C.M.F.) is an arguably obscure but extremely consequential document informing the educations of millions of children, from transitional kindergarten to twelfth ...

Los Angeles Unified Supt. Alberto Carvalho greets students and families at Main Street Elementary School on the first day of the 2024-25 school year. (Al Seib / For The Times) Test scores for ...

California education officials on Wednesday approved a long-studied overhaul of the state’s math teaching guide, with sweeping changes designed to make the subject more relevant and accessible, ...

This summer, a University of California panel voted to set the record straight on a controversial math admissions requirement. The vote had timely implications for K-12 schools across California: The ...

A California-based group is sounding the alarm as the state education department considers implementing a framework that promotes controversial ideas about race and mathematics. The "Pathway to ...

Faculty members across the University of California system are staging a behind-the-scenes protest against an admissions policy they say risks leaving their students unprepared for college-level math.