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San Francisco middle school students will be able to take Algebra 1 again for the first time since the Obama years — albeit ...

San Francisco school board votes to reinstate eighth-grade algebra districtwide after a decade-long policy shift led to lower ...

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...

From suburbs in the Northeast to major cities on the West Coast, a surprising subject is prompting ballot measures, lawsuits and bitter fights among parents: algebra. Students have been required for ...

This year all Springfield eighth graders have an opportunity to take algebra for the first time in a number of years ...

Eighth-grade math is changing: Instead of emphasizing Algebra I where only some students thrive, many schools are placing all students in the same general class that covers several concepts. Common ...