Some places are moving to universal early algebra. Minnesota has required it for years — with less-than-promising results.

Republished with permission from The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news outlet focused on education. BRAHAM, Minn. — It was ...

Students in eighth grade algebra teacher Rick Riccio’s class work through an exercise ... And unlike the other two districts, Moorhead’s calculus numbers have increased, though not by much: An average ...

Algebra 1 in eighth grade has been a stretch ... though not by much: An average of 1.3% of students in the district were enrolled in calculus in the three years before the eighth grade requirement ...

Not all eighth graders are ready for the abstract concepts — like variables, linear functions, slope — that come with Algebra I, some experts and teachers say. Those more complex ideas also require ...

Starting this spring, a review committee will meet several times to refine Louisiana's educational content standards and ...

According to statistics that must be true or I wouldn’t have made them up, 87% of grandfathers couldn’t pass a third-grade ...

Now that my kids are in high school, things like academics and sport practices are more important to them. I miss being able ...

The Bartlett and Jackson School Boards met recently to discuss a wide range of topics, from the eighth-grade algebra ...