Updated Jan. 15 2014: With little discussion, the State Board of Education unanimously approved 31 new K-8 and Algebra 1 math textbooks and other teaching materials aligned to Common Core State ...

Automatically enrolling students in advanced courses from day one of middle school could change their math trajectory, a new ...

Students who didn’t have much prior math knowledge at all were the least likely to master new Algebra 1 concepts, with a 13% success rate. Students who had most of the math knowledge from ...

Algebra 1 is the most failed class in high schools across the country. At Green Mountain High School, a student-turned-teacher, who failed Algebra himself, is taking a new approach.

But Rebecca Bowie, a resident and an eighth-grade math teacher in another district, said Algebra 1 is not the right way to increase the middle school math curriculum, and that the School Committee ...