With a record number of new college students failing their first-year English or math class, SUNY is redesigning those ...

The drive to get every student to take so-called college gateway courses has succeeded, a new federal study finds, but students taking Algebra 1 and Geometry classes are getting considerably less ...

Students can’t succeed in math if they’re never exposed to it. And many students never get access to advanced—or even some foundational—math in high school. New federal civil rights data and an ...

A Massachusetts district is experimenting with universal eighth-grade algebra, raising fresh questions about access, ...

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Some math educators want to see more pathways considered when weighing math achievement and looking to college admissions.

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Math is generally a required subject for students in the United States until college. You might elect ...

It used to be that algebra and other high-level math courses were limited to high schools, and even then only those students headed to college. But more and more algebra is popping up in middle ...

This story was updated on Aug. 2, 2017. A new policy from the California State University system will soon allow some students to take math classes with pre-requisites other than intermediate algebra ...