While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Many of us groan when we think back to high school algebra class. Imagine taking the course as a seventh-grader - and, no, it's not a new form of punishment. A handful of campuses in the Houston ...

ST. JOHN — After five years of offering an algebra class for high-ability seventh-grade students instead of the regular advanced math course, Lake Central schools has decided to drop it in the face of ...

SAN ANTONIO — In a state that has passed anti-diversity laws and tried to squelch instruction on systemic racism, a new law could open doors for Latino and Black children long shut out of advanced ...

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Portland Public Schools will continue offering algebra to select eighth-graders but will reset its bar for which students can enter the fast-tracked math class that precedes it. That’s a pivot, given ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

Nathaniel Rochester Community School 3 in the Rochester City School District had 16 seventh-grade students take the Regents exams, a practice that's rare even in high-performing suburban districts.

Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...