Half of students fail college algebra. Reformers say outdated college math requirements are gatekeeping graduation.

Should all students take Algebra 2? Florida seemed to say “no” this spring with the passage of a law striking it from graduation requirements. Texas said much the same in legislation Republican Gov.

February 19, 2026 - Arizona State University wants Cal Grants for its California-based students, but California officials say its not eligible. This story was updated on Aug. 2, 2017. A new policy ...

My students know all too well that if they need help in math, I’m the last teacher to ask. Math was extremely hard for me in school. Numbers moved around ...

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 ...

When the decision was made to move algebra instruction down a grade, eighth-grade math teacher Laurie Mancuso spent the summer of 2007 educating herself. The Bunker Middle School teacher wanted to ...

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Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...