Middle schoolers' access to the course is stratified along racial, socioeconomic, and regional lines, new research finds.

The school board voted 6-1 in February 2024 to reinstate Algebra 1 and launched pilot programs at seven schools for the ...

When eighth grade teacher Dean Dunkin gives algebra lessons, he's confronted by a worrisome reality: Many students aren't ready to learn the concepts. "I honestly have students that probably would ...

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: ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

Hope Reed saw stark disparities in math classes at Blythewood High School about a decade ago. At Blythewood, a school in the suburbs of South Carolina’s capital of Columbia, nearly half of the ...