Notably, taking Algebra 1 and 8th grade math together boosted all students’ scores—not just those of students who were less ...

The San Francisco school board approved a plan to restore algebra as an option at all middle schools, more than a decade ...

San Francisco school officials have released a long-awaited plan that allows proficient eighth-graders to skip ahead to ...

Critics of the school board’s 2014 decision to remove the course are optimistic but say pre-middle school math offerings ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. If you’re an eighth grader who wants to take algebra, can you even take the class? The answer to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...