A Sacramento Superior Court judge has halted - at least for now - a controversial plan to require that all California eighth-graders be tested in Algebra 1 as early as 2011. No other state requires ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) – Florida ninth-graders who took the state's first ever end-of-course Algebra I exam, on average, got only 41-percent of the answers correct. Education Commissioner Eric Smith ...

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 ...

Update: The letters notifying parents and students as to whether that student passed the graduation-required Algebra 1 end-of-course exam have begun to arrive in home mailboxes. The letter doesn’t ...

District-by-district test scores have just been released on the PARCC assessments.This is the same test aligned with the Common Core Standards and for some, there are bright spots.The new test covers ...

While statewide scores remained largely flat, Houston ISD high school students saw improvement in each STAAR subject, including large gains in Algebra 1 and biology, two years into state intervention.