Automatically enrolling students in advanced courses from day one of middle school could change their math trajectory, a new ...

Alexander Karp, the program director of the mathematics education program at Teachers College, Columbia University, says the timing of Algebra 1 also depends in part on a student’s location and ...

“Having that ability to see relationships between numbers is what leads to success in Algebra 1,” said Phil Murray, a high school math teacher at Early College Opportunities High School in ...

Algebra 1 is the most failed class in high schools across the country. At Green Mountain High School, a student-turned-teacher, who failed Algebra himself, is taking a new approach.

This story was updated at 1:41 p.m. and 5:29 p.m. on Aug. 2, 2017, to clarify that the change in CSU math prerequisites does not affect admissions requirements to CSU and why high school students who ...

At issue is whether high school students can apply to UC if they have taken a data science course in place of Algebra 2, the traditional third year of high school math that used to be required of ...

A math teacher helps an eighth-grader with an algebra lesson at Spring International Middle School in Silver Spring, Md., in 2010. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post) Perspective by Jay Mathews ...

Middle school math is a formative period for building the foundations of math education for high school and college. ... with just 55.9% of students proficient in algebra, down from 61.1% in 2018 ...

One study showed only 2 percent of Latino students and 1 percent of African-American students in low-level remedial classes passed college math two years after enrolling. Victoria Dominguez: They ...

The National Center for Education Statistics, for example, found in 2019 that 43% of high school students graduated without taking math courses beyond Algebra II, the report says.