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

Chance Harrison and Jaylen Garibay, seniors at Rio Mesa High School, compare data and work on an analysis. OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo ...

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

Middle school students who narrowly fail to meet the rigorous requirements needed to take Grade 8 algebra now will get another chance to take advanced algebra in Grade 9, under changes proposed by a ...

EdSource · California gears up for a big shift in how we teach kids to read This story was updated on Aug. 2, 2017. A new policy from the California State University system will soon allow some ...

DPI says the proposed new math standards will help make the courses more meaningful for students in life after high school.

Giving struggling 9th graders an extra helping of algebra can provide an edge in college years later—but only if students study with peers who challenge them academically. In 2003, Chicago Public ...

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 ...

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Few students in honors algebra take rigorous work Scores on 12th grade math and science tests are not improving despite increase in %22advanced%22 work Parents ...