Middle schoolers' access to the course is stratified along racial, socioeconomic, and regional lines, new research finds.

The school board voted 6-1 in February 2024 to reinstate Algebra 1 and launched pilot programs at seven schools for the ...

Schools are less likely to offer Latino and Black students early algebra, limiting odds they will get advanced courses and higher-paying jobs.

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

Cambridge Public Schools officials said the city’s latest attempt to implement Algebra 1 courses for all eighth graders will be delayed one year, another setback after three decades of back-and-forth ...

Montgomery County's failure rate for the June final exam in Algebra 1 was so steep — 82 percent for high school students — that district officials say they decided to add 15 percentage points to all ...

Next fall's incoming freshman at San Francisco public high schools will have the option to test out of Algebra 1, a class now required for all ninth-grade students. San Francisco Unified School ...

Under the Common Core State Standards, Algebra 1 is a much tougher course than what was taught previously in most states, teachers and standards experts say, in part because many of the concepts that ...

All California eighth-graders in public school will have to take Algebra 1 beginning in 2011 under a policy approved Wednesday by the state Board of Education in an 8-1 vote. The board decided to make ...