The drive to get every student to take so-called college gateway courses has succeeded, a new federal study finds, but students taking Algebra 1 and Geometry classes are getting considerably less ...

This story was updated on Aug. 2, 2017. A new policy from the California State University system will soon allow some students to take math classes with pre-requisites other than intermediate algebra ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most U.S. high school introductory algebra courses labeled “honors” actually are no more rigorous than regular courses in the same school, according to a government curriculum ...

Notably, taking Algebra 1 and 8th grade math together boosted all students’ scores—not just those of students who were less ...

Few students in honors algebra take rigorous work Scores on 12th grade math and science tests are not improving despite increase in %22advanced%22 work Parents ...

In Maryland, the current class of 9th graders will be the first to have to pass an algebra test to graduate from high school. That's putting pressure on some parents to brush up on their math skills ...

At Carr Intermediate, it’s hard to find any course that matters more than algebra. Students at the Santa Ana school spend two hours each day in algebra classes, twice as much time as in any other ...

It’s hard to find a class that matters more than algebra at Mendez Fundamental Intermediate in Santa Ana. Teachers and administrators work to funnel all eighth-graders into the course before they head ...

High school students planning to apply to the University of California now have a broader set of courses they can take to meet the math requirement for admission to the public university system. As ...

Many of us groan when we think back to high school algebra class. Imagine taking the course as a seventh-grader - and, no, it's not a new form of punishment. A handful of campuses in the Houston ...