In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

Superintendent Don Austin also addressed the topic in his weekly email to families on Feb. 24, writing that the current system has students take Algebra I in eighth grade, a year ahead of many ...

This experiment did not include more advanced students who had already taken algebra in eighth grade or earlier ... That meant cutting some algebra topics. Teachers made their own decisions on how to ...

Darling-Hammond said that the position on eighth-grade algebra also was misconstrued ... but doing so through equity-connected topics such as skin-tone representation (in the) media, community water ...

Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, ...

In contrast, a 2019 federally funded report revealed that states needing major adjustments to adopt the new standards experienced a slight decline in 8th-grade math performance. The change has ...

To make up for the vacancies, Bessie Rhodes’ Principal Charlise Berkel is teaching seventh and eighth grade Math and Science ... The Board will be able to consider the topic at its next meeting on Nov ...

Our students have a limited background in grade-level science topics, and they have absolutely blown us ... noting that "the state has the best fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math scores in the ...

Massachusetts Students 12 Points Ahead in State Rated Top for Public EducationEASTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / November 1, 2024 / ...

The topic of education has been mostly absent from this year's presidential campaigns. But the future of American schools and ...