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It was intended to be a rigorous lesson on the complexities of ratios and cross multiplication. But some of the students in teacher Yong Li She’s sixth-grade math class had other ideas. One boy threw ...

STAMFORD -- On a recent Thursday, a string was strung, clothesline-style, across the front of social studies teacher Heather Lorenz's classroom at Turn of River Middle School. After her class of about ...

Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...

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 was little when ...