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 ...
The experiment also meant that average, grade-level students were learning alongside peers who lacked foundational math skills. It was risky. Students sometimes end up with lower math scores when they ...
The pressure to reach Calculus by a student’s senior year of high school often translates into pressure to take Algebra I, the first course in a five-course sequence, by eighth grade. Algebra I (or ...
where teachers have been using Illustrative Math for seven years, eighth-grade teacher Emma Comstock Reid handed the group a worksheet with five pairs of similar shapes. For each, the task was to ...
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade ...
Students across Whiteside, Lee, Ogle and Carroll counties who were in third through eighth grade last year were tested last year in English language arts and math using the Illinois Assessment of ...
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 officials announced at the district’s Board of Education meeting Oct. 28 that they were weighing four options on possibly keeping Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global ...