The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) decided recently to eliminate first-year algebra for 8th graders. Algebra will now be offered only in high school. Of course, it is a mistake to allow ...

When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already passed it in eighth grade but, due to the pandemic, hadn’t taken the Regents ...

Eighth grade algebra teacher Rick Riccio helps students with a problem at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga/The Hechinger Report BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic ...

This article was originally published in El Paso Matters. In the last few years, the Socorro Independent School District has been preparing its middle school students to enroll in algebra once they ...

"So what this report is saying is really not that kids shouldn't be taking Algebra in the 8th grade, but that really they need more preparation," California Watch reporter Louis Freedberg said.