Students graph linear equations in Zach Loy’s ninth-grade algebra class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

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Eighth grade algebra teacher Rick Riccio helps students with a problem at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga/The Hechinger Report BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic ...

When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already passed it in eighth grade but, due to the pandemic, hadn’t taken the Regents ...

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

SACRAMENTO – Eighth grade is about to get much more rigorous for many of California’s public school students. The state Board of Education voted Wednesday to require all eighth-graders to be tested in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's school board could vote Tuesday night on bringing back algebra for students in 8th grade after the district eliminated the course from its middle schools a decade ago.

Students will be allowed to take Algebra I or an alternate course that includes some algebra. New state standardized tests will focus on the alternate course. Most states have already adopted what is ...

BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific ...

But under a 2006 Minnesota law designed to boost the number of students going into math and science careers, all eighth graders were required to take Algebra 1. At the time, legislators argued that ...