Today, remedial math has been eliminated in the district’s main high schools and nearly all students are in ninth grade algebra or a more advanced class, except for students with severe disabilities.

In 2014, San Francisco schools stopped offering accelerated middle school math classes and made Algebra 1 a ninth-grade math requirement, an attempt to close achievement gaps between disadvantaged ...

Automatically enrolling students in advanced courses from day one of middle school could change their math trajectory, a new ...

Caden Rivera, a 16-year-old junior, said middle school was the beginning of a math slide for her. She got As in elementary school math but her grades fell once she hit algebra in eighth grade. “I was ...

Texas, Rodick said, has begun an "opt-out" system for algebra based on fifth grade math scores instead of basing it on teacher recommendation. Cole Behrens covers K-12 education and school ...

Taking algebra in eighth grade sets students like the Kaczenski twins up for geometry in ninth grade, advanced algebra by 10th grade, pre-calculus in 11th grade and calculus by their senior year.