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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After 274 young women spent two-and-a-half hours working through 20 advanced math problems for the 16th annual Advantage ...

While applauding the intention of “finding ways to help struggling math students attain greater proficiency,” Kathy Jordan said that approach will fail, as it did in San Francisco Unified. It has ...

The graduation rate among Illinois students hit a historic high, of nearly 88%, last school year, as did student performance ...

In the first installment of her column "Heart to Heart," Audrey Tomlin examines the physicality (and sometimes lack thereof) ...

Distinguishing himself with an AI handheld pesticide detector of his own design, Gwinnett County resident Sirish Subash was ...

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 ...

On average, 41% of Illinois elementary students met or exceeded literacy standards last year, while only 28% met or exceeded ...