Nine states have agreed to share an end-of-course assessment for Algebra 2, officials from Achieve, the education policy group that worked with the states to develop the test, planned to announce this ...

EdSource · California gears up for a big shift in how we teach kids to read High school math, and algebra, in particular, is in crisis. Although some students thrive on the pathway to calculus, most ...

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

Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since ...

Education reformers often bemoan that schools never shed programs that are no longer needed or effective. New school initiatives are consequently layered on top of past practices, which means schools ...

Twice this year, the University of California faculty broadly reaffirmed which high school math courses are required for admissions. However, many school counselors and students, along with the ...

Spurred by a succession of reports pointing to the importance of algebra as a gateway to college, educators and policymakers embraced “algebra for all” policies in the 1990s and began working to ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Graphing linear equations. Solving quadratic functions. Conjugating complex numbers. Rationalizing denominators. Most people won't do any of those outside of an Algebra 2 classroom ...