One thing both sides of the math-wars debate should agree on is this: Educators can set high standards, but the higher standards only help students if the students have a base of knowledge from which ...

AP English teacher Mark Hernandez speaks to students at Gunn High School in Palo Alto on March 16, 2022. Photo by Magali Gauthier. A judge has ruled that the Palo Alto Unified School District’s method ...

The new state policy of requiring algebra in the eighth grade will set up unprepared students for failure while holding back others with solid math skills, a new report has concluded. These ...

Students entering the eighth grade this year will be the first class to need to pass three years of math to graduate from Washington’s public high schools, but they’ll get some leeway in how they do ...

Seventh graders at Willie Brown College Prep Academy in San Francisco are learning algebra over the summer. Computer games make the introduction easier. "I firmly believe these kids will learn ...

OLYMPIA — A state Senate committee passed legislation Monday to eliminate a requirement that threatens to keep hundreds of high school seniors from obtaining diplomas. Those students did not take the ...