When students take Algebra 1 matters. If high schoolers don’t pass the course by 9th grade, they’re unlikely to reach college-preparatory math in high school. There are too many courses to get through ...

Delays aren't enough to help students who aren't ready to take Algebra 1 in 8th grade, a new analysis suggests.

District leaders in Oklahoma City say a new report shows that there has been progress in preparing ninth-grade students for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to access, readiness and placement in Algebra I, states and districts across the country have ping-ponged between ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

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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 ...

Incoming ninth-grade students at San Francisco’s public high schools will be placed into varying math courses and monitored for their performance under a new policy passed at the Board of Education on ...