Arizona high school students are entering college unprepared for advanced math, prompting a review of Algebra II standards. A task force recommends cutting down on the number of Algebra II topics to ...

Briana Hampton, a San Gabriel High School junior, is determined to get into a four-year university to achieve her dream of becoming a social worker or psychiatrist. But she feared she would fail a ...

A proposed revision of the state’s math standards would dump existing upper-level requirements and replace them with a menu ...

How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why the national reaction was so strong to Andrew Hacker’s op-ed in last Sunday’s NY Times, “Is Algebra Necessary? ” After engaging with various blog posts and ...

THIS book, comprising vols. 2 and 3, is intended A to complete the school course and to provide a suitable introduction to higher work for those who are proceeding to the universities. Attention has ...

As Texas reconsiders whether all students should take algebra II to earn a high school diploma, it is bucking a national trend that it helped launch a decade ago toward more stringent math curriculum.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Algebra tends to elicit a visceral reaction in most folks: You either love it or you hate it. Well, a new book is taking the argument to another level. College professor and ...

Schools are less likely to offer Latino and Black students early algebra, limiting odds they will get advanced courses and higher-paying jobs.