Not all eighth ... take pre-algebra, not algebra. About 6.4 percent of school districts around the country, most of them in Minnesota, report having policies mandating algebra in eighth grade.

Adams: My math-and-physics-teacher husband knew that if our daughter didn't take geometry in 9th grade, she'd never get to calculus. He was right.

But Minnesota kept universal algebra in eighth grade and to date is the only state that’s adopted and stuck with the policy. California mandated its plan in 2008 but reversed course in 2010 after a ...

When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already passed it in eighth grade ... 2 in 11th and pre-calculus — not calc ...

This story about eighth ... pre-algebra, not algebra. About 6.4% of school districts around the country, most of them in Minnesota, report having policies mandating algebra in eighth grade.

explored changes in Minnesota students’ math proficiency following the passage of a 2006 law requiring all 8th graders to take algebra. The idea was to ensure that students would be able to take ...

Earlier this month the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit education news outlet, explored changes in Minnesota students’ math proficiency following the passage of a 2006 law requiring all 8th graders to ...

A Kenosha STEM-focused charter school and Kenosha Unified School District, which sponsors it, have parted ways, dissolving their partnership after 16 years. The Kenosha School of Technology ...

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