More than 1 in 3 public school students now take Algebra 1 before high school. For those students to succeed, schools must adjust middle school programs to better match student readiness to class ...

Officials from Cambridge Public Schools updated the School Committee on the status of two decades-long projects — Algebra 1 in eighth grade and universal preschool — in a Tuesday meeting. The ...

The article was updated on July 10 to clarify the section about rewording and eliminating cited research. The State Board of Education is poised to approve a nearly 1,000-page guidance for math ...

As state and school leaders across the country push to have more students take algebra in 8th grade, a new study argues that middle schoolers struggling the most in math are being enrolled in that ...

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Students graph linear equations in Zach Loy’s ninth-grade algebra class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...