Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifth grade students work on their math lesson at HISD's A.A. Milne Elementary School in Houston, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (Brett ...

Accelerated Math, a software tool for middle school math used in an estimated 30,000 schools nationwide, has been found to have “no discernable effect” on student achievement by federal officials who ...

Starting last fall, the Rancho Santa Fe School District offered its middle school students a new honors and accelerated math pathway, providing more rigor to the academic program to give ...

Accelerated Math, a popular middle school mathematics software program, was found to have “no discernible effect” on student achievement in a review by the federal What Works Clearinghouse. The ...

The Manhasset School District is considering changes to its accelerated math and science AP intensive program, including moving the math program start from sixth to seventh grade and making the ...

When gifted intervention specialist Amy Alexander prompts her Cherokee Elementary students to select an item from anywhere in the classroom, the kids spring to action. They search high and low, eager ...

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is moving to eliminate all accelerated math options prior to 11th grade, effectively keeping higher-achieving students from advancing as they usually would ...

In late April 2021, various right-leaning news outlets ran inaccurate headlines stating that the state of Virginia would eliminate accelerated math courses for all students in grades below 11th, ...

In an effort to have more proficient and advanced students, the Upper Darby School Board is moving forward a plan to provide an accelerated math option in its elementary and middle schools. The board ...

It just didn’t add up. A top city middle school has backtracked on plans to get rid of accelerated math courses after a ferocious parental outcry this week. Lab Middle School for Collaborative studies ...

Elementary teachers at Boulder Valley’s online school, Boulder Universal, saw their students make more progress than expected after getting extra, targeted help in reading through an online format. So ...

All current Houston ISD fifth graders will take a new “accelerated math” pathway next year, expanding access to Algebra 1 before high school and more advanced coursework later on. Starting in the 2026 ...