Students need to believe they can be "math people," writes Lance Barasch, who teaches algebra at the School of Science and Engineering...

"Data science" is a popular choice for students who struggled in traditional math classes, reports Javeria Salman on the Hechinger...

San Francisco schools should offer algebra in eighth grade, said 84 percent of voters in Tuesday's election. It was a stunning rejection...

Algebra will return to San Francisco middle schools, reports Jill Tucker in the San Francisco Chronicle. The school board's vote Tuesday...

Most middle schools offer eighth-grade algebra to high achievers, according to a new RAND survey, reports Kalyn Belsha on Chalkbeat. Only...

"Equity" doesn't mean lowering standards in Union district near Tulsa, reports Hechinger's Neal Morton. Most students in accelerated math...

All Shaker Heights students take honors classes -- or classes with an "honors" label. The "enriched" and "advanced" tracks are gone,...

The foolish idea that teaching kids less math will advance "equity" has spread from California, which has adopted watered-down guidelines...

Impatience is the besetting sin of progressive education. Progressives want to skip the boring, old fundamentals -- phonics,...

"Data science" classes don't prepare students for college-level math, science or engineering courses, say University of California...

The goal was equity. The result: Meh. Frustrated by high failure rates in eighth-grade algebra, San Francisco Unified decided in 2015 to...

Students learn more when their teachers have high expectations, concludes a study in North Carolina, reports Kevin Mahnken. Algebra...

“What is so magical about algebra as a math requirement?” asked Eloy Ortiz Oakley, former chancellor of California’s community college...