A national sample of 55,000 students across dozens of states revealed that even when they were ready for 8th-grade algebra based on their 7th-grade test scores, almost a quarter didn’t enroll in the ...

State and school district efforts to improve math instruction have added new fuel to long-running debates about when students should take Algebra 1. For students, the decision isn’t as simple as ...

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