Bunk questions might have thrown the results of state math tests taken by thousands of city students last month, public school teachers who gave and graded the tests say. The Regents exams for Algebra ...

ALBANY — How can you pass a test if you only get 26 of 86 points? Take the New York State Regents Algebra 1 exam. The fuzzy math, critics say, illustrates how New York policymakers have become so ...

His math is right, but more advanced than that of the “typical” test taker. After an East Setauket teen said he discovered a flaw in a Regents Geometry exam question, the state Education Department ...

Angry teachers have launched a statewide revolt against the math Regents exam after a shockingly high number of their students flunked the test on Tuesday. Both faculty and students complained the ...

Paul Gasparini, principal of Jamesville-DeWitt High School, talks in 2012 with Ben Shapiro, then a senior at the school. Many eighth- and ninth-graders at J-D and elsewhere will take two Regents ...

A powerful state lawmaker is demanding that the results of controversial Math Regents exam be tossed out so 3,000 high-school seniors who flunked have a chance to graduate. “It is widely acknowledged ...

Alfred S. Posamentier, a professor of mathematics education at the City College of the City University of New York, is a former member of the New York State Standards Commission. New York is thinking ...

NEW YORK -- New York state has proposed letting eighth-graders skip the statewide math test if they take the algebra Regents test. that the state would have to get clearance from the U.S. Department ...

Question: When is 39 a passing grade? Answer: When it’s the Math Regents exam. A new scoring system announced yesterday suddenly transformed hundreds of failing grades on June’s Math A Regents into ...