A better question than "Does online learning work?" might be "Under what circumstances and conditions does it have a positive impact on educational outcomes?" Schools and districts are increasingly ...

The State Board of Education ended a decade-long controversial policy of pushing eighth graders to take Algebra I when members voted unanimously Wednesday to strip California’s Algebra I standards ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. Mastering algebra is widely considered the gateway to higher mathematics and college readiness, but new studies question whether low-performing students benefit from ...

University of California faculty and administrators have been debating a change to required courses that sounds like a small issue, but that should have the academic sphere asking these questions ...

In Appendix A of the California Mathematics Framework, which the State Board of Education adopted, the authors suggest multiple ways for districts to accelerate the math course sequence in high school ...

Spurred by a succession of reports pointing to the importance of algebra as a gateway to college, educators and policymakers embraced “algebra for all” policies in the 1990s and began working to ...