DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...
Teachers at Flushing High School claim the school’s grading system is forcing them to pass students who are actually failing ...
BOSTON -- A new study finds art and music classes could help boost students' math scores. When schools are facing budget cuts, music and art classes are often the first to go. But a new study suggests ...
Achievement gaps between student groups have worsened in the wake of the pandemic and its disruptions to learning. Credit: File/Grace Beahm Alford/Staff The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...
High school math should be more practical, more engaging, and without tracking systems that place some students — often low-income, African-American or Latino — in less challenging classes that leave ...
A student goes over an article in University of Washington’s computer ethics class, taught by Prof. Dan Grossman. Credit: Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education ...
The College Board offers four Advanced Placement classes in math: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics and – the newest – AP Precalculus. Successful completion of an AP math class is ...
Consider the following scenario that frequently occurs in math classes throughout higher education. On the first day of class, a math professor announces to students, “If you don’t know this, this and ...
PALMER — Mat-Su students entering middle school next year could have longer class periods and see fewer teachers each day ...
Latino and African-American students were less likely to pass algebra 1 and less likely to attend high schools that offer advanced math or science classes than their white and Asian peers, according ...
At the tender age of 7, while most kids were learning to ride bikes and play video games, Natalia was pondering early principles of multiplication and algebra two hours per week in her Russian math ...
Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...