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 ...

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 ...

Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012. Let’s call her Veronica. On her schedule is a math class full of other ninth graders repeating ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.