Nothing about Algebra II is easy. Educators applauded lawmakers in June for dumping Algebra II as an end-of-course exam after less than half of students passed the test over its three-year existence.

A nationwide network outage at Pearson, Florida’s testing company, created problems for schools administering the state’s new standardized algebra exam today, officials said. Students were able to ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. A new study argues that putting all eighth graders in algebra, something that California has ...

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

Every California eighth-grader will be tested in algebra -- ready or not -- under a policy approved Wednesday that could make the state the first in the nation to require an upper-level math class ...

Just three years ago, only a third of Hayward students took algebra in middle school. Now, almost all of the district’s eighth-graders tackle irrational numbers, absolute values and the ubiquitous ...

October 2, 2025 - Saran Tugsjargal found herself wondering who would stand up for students like her. Little did she know that she would become that person. Imagine you’re 16. You’ve just passed your ...

Algebra has traditionally been offered to teens starting in ninth grade, but a growing body of research shows that students who take the class in eighth grade are more likely to succeed in high school ...

Scores on statewide tests for thousands of Florida public school students may be late again this year, with the Department of Education unable to provide test results to many districts in time for ...

Texas’ first trove of 2021 state standardized test scores offers early confirmation of what many educators feared: students fell dramatically behind in math during the coronavirus pandemic. Results ...

A Sacramento County Superior Court judge last week ordered the California state board of education to postpone its bold and expensive plan to require all 8th graders to be tested in algebra. The board ...