If North Carolina high school junior Katie Denton struggles with her Algebra 2 homework, she knows she’s not on her own. Denton can use her school-issued smartphone to send instant messages to her ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress Web site offers the following questions as examples of “hard” eighth-grade “algebra” problems. Answers are on page 18. 1. The lowest point of the St.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. If you’re an eighth grader who wants to take algebra, can you even take the class? The answer to ...