Throughout the pandemic, data from testing has shown that students are struggling in math, making less progress than they might have in other years. Teachers, too, have said that routines core to ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

In many school districts, Algebra 1 serves as a gatekeeper course, influencing access to upper-level math classes that are necessary for acceptance into four-year colleges and universities. In 2009, ...

Starting next school year, Evanston Township High School will place incoming freshmen into math classes purely based on their highest eighth-grade math score on the Measures of Academic Progress test.

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...