Should all students take Algebra 2? Florida seemed to say “no” this spring with the passage of a law striking it from graduation requirements. Texas said much the same in legislation Republican Gov.

Our country is facing a math crisis, with students’ scores on standardized assessments persistently stagnant or declining. When it comes to public policy, there are rarely any easy solutions, but ...

Briana Hampton, a San Gabriel High School junior, is determined to get into a four-year university to achieve her dream of becoming a social worker or psychiatrist. But she feared she would fail a ...

How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...

Ever sat in math class and wondered if you’d ever use advanced algebra in your daily life? Lately, conversations online have been buzzing about whether schools should swap out some of that complex ...

Algebra is the one course that prevents the most people from graduating high school, and it's the single most failed course in community colleges. Now some educators are questioning whether people ...