This strategy for differentiating instruction can help increase elementary and middle school students’ involvement in their ...

Schools can use extracurricular activities, such as math or robotics teams, to boost interest in challenging math in younger middle school grades. “In reading, you can just pick up a harder book ...

By double-dosing students with math concepts in seventh grade — couched in an approach that stresses projects with real-world applications over worksheets ... Gray Middle School on the ...

Every middle school would offer algebra, and principals could opt to enroll all of their eighth graders in the class. San Francisco took an opposite approach: If some children could not reach ...

At the subsequent full meeting of the committee on June 18, members Elizabeth Hudson — who was elected to the board in November after campaigning on bringing back middle school algebra — and ...

After a decade of debate and division, the San Francisco Unified School District is adding algebra back into its eighth grade curriculum at a third of its middle schools starting next year.