OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School was anything but quiet. Students chatted about the data analysis they performed on ...

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 ...

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 ...

As students move up through the grades in elementary and middle school, math marches relentlessly forward—whether they’re ...

It used to be that algebra and other high-level math courses were limited to high schools, and even then only those students headed to college. But more and more algebra is popping up in middle ...

This story was updated on Aug. 2, 2017. A new policy from the California State University system will soon allow some students to take math classes with pre-requisites other than intermediate algebra ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) - Algebra 1 is the most failed class in high schools across the country. At Green Mountain High School in Lakewood, a student-turned-teacher, who failed Algebra himself, is ...

Despite being a vocal opponent of reintroducing the class to eighth grade classrooms, candidate Brandee Marckmann appeared to backtrack.

Eighth-grade math is changing: Instead of emphasizing Algebra I where only some students thrive, many schools are placing all students in the same general class that covers several concepts. Common ...

Statistical courses, rather than algebra remediation, do a better job at helping first-year students succeed when they test into developmental education, a new report ...

Latino and African-American students were less likely to pass algebra 1 and less likely to attend high schools that offer advanced math or science classes than their white and Asian peers, according ...