Most days in Molly Schaefer’s 8th grade geometry class, her students are focused on math concepts—learning about radians or cross-sections of three-dimensional figures. But one Friday about a month ...

Encouraging students to take accelerated math classes in 8th grade, based on prior strong performance, increases their chances of scoring a 3 or higher on Advanced Placement math exams in high school, ...

Many stories also picked up on the fact that achievement gaps are growing, as lower-performing students have fallen further ...

The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to ...

February 5, 2026 - Fresno Unified invested $30 million in services that go beyond traditional academics, from housing assistance to music production and lunchtime sports. Eighth-graders in the United ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- The vast majority of RPS seventh-graders took the eighth-grade math Standards of Learning (SOL) test during the 2021-2022 school year, as opposed to the seventh-grade math SOL. And of ...

The pandemic has taken its toll on education. Test scores released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress show learning has fallen back during the time kids were not regularly in class.

An education committee recommended Tuesday that the state stop docking the test scores of districts that don’t offer Algebra I in 8th grade. The recommendation by the Public Schools Accountability Act ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The San Francisco Unified School District is in the midst of developing a plan to make comprehensive and strategic adjustments to the district’s math curriculum. Meredith Dodson ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...