At least the teacher could admit when she was wrong.

San Francisco school officials have released a long-awaited plan that allows proficient eighth-graders to skip ahead to ...

This year all Springfield eighth graders have an opportunity to take algebra for the first time in a number of years ...

After a two-year pilot, the San Francisco Unified School District seems to have come up with a plan for bringing Algebra 1 back to eighth grade.

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 ...

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 ...

In 1999, Po-Shen Loh took home the silver medal as a member of the US International Math Olympiad. Two decades later, much of his life still revolves around math. The team hasn’t been forgotten — if ...

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 ...

San Francisco middle school students will be able to take Algebra 1 again for the first time since the Obama years — albeit ...

Keyari Cooper started ninth-grade algebra with a decent attitude. Math wasn't her best subject, but the Pittsburg High School student thought she had a fighting chance to pass the course. Factoring, ...

San Francisco school board votes to reinstate eighth-grade algebra districtwide after a decade-long policy shift led to lower ...