Consider supporting our stories and becoming a member today. 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 ...

When students take Algebra 1 matters. If high schoolers don’t pass the course by 9th grade, they’re unlikely to reach college-preparatory math in high school. There are too many courses to get ...

To do this, let’s go back to ninth-grade algebra. If the American odds are positive (+110, +130, +400, etc.), use this formula: (American odds / 100) + 1 = Decimal odds If the American odds are ...

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 ...

by eighth grade. Algebra I (or Integrated Math I) is considered a ninth grade course, but taking it on that schedule typically doesn’t allow students to meet the prerequisites for Calculus in their ...

Over a period of 12 weeks, ninth graders from Design Works High School in Brooklyn traveled to the Research Yard in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to figure out how to create a box that would stop ice cream ...

Oct. 10—Instructional Research Group, a California-based education research institute, is studying eighth graders' math skills at three county schools. The study's purpose is to improve eighth grade ...

At the middle school level, seventh-grade students have 102 hours, and eighth- and ninth-graders receive 136 hours of social studies instruction. In high school, first-year students take a program of ...

The Math Placement Act requires districts to have a “multi-point, objective, fair and transparent placement process for all incoming ninth grade students.” Zepeda ruled that Palo Alto Unified ...

The district already axed ninth-grade honors social studies in 2019, and the phasing out of honors English was expected to presage changes to math and science courses. Districts across the region ...

Dual enrollment is exploding. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 million high school students took college classes, simultaneously earning high school and college credits. That’s up from 1.5 ...