One thing both sides of the math-wars debate should agree on is this: Educators can set high standards, but the higher standards only help students if the students have a base of knowledge from which ...

Add this to California school boards’ to-do lists for 2016: Create a clear-cut, objective policy for determining which incoming 9 th-grade students qualify to accelerate their sequence of math courses ...

OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School was anything but quiet. Students chatted about the data analysis they performed on ...

Adults are in a sense condoning cheating so Nevada students can earn a diploma. Earn is an extremely charitable word. More than a thousand seniors will be handed their certificate of completing high ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

AUSTIN — Texas students were given course options to avoid taking Algebra 2 following new graduation requirements that were approved Friday by the state. The State Board of Education voted 14-1 to ...

Ivy Watkins, left, and Catherine Simpson announce ciphering rules at Cedar Ridge Middle School’s annual math tournament. More than 900 students from 37 Alabama schools participated in the Nov. 7 event ...