Let’s say you’re entering your senior year of high school. Your school district, or your state, is requiring you to take a fourth year of math. But the only options offered, in addition to the courses ...

As someone whose college dreams were almost derailed by remedial math courses, I was thrilled to learn that the California State University system will no longer require intermediate algebra as a ...

Corrected: In a previous version of this story, the group that is developing a linear algebra and geometry course of study was misidentified. The group is the Education Development Center. When ...

A dump truck with a red painted sign reading “Dump Swun now, kids deserve better” sat in the parking lot outside the Newport-Mesa Unified School District board meeting Tuesday evening as parents, ...

A disgruntled, off his meds, “lone wolf” gunman walks into a bar. We all know how that story ends: He orders 300 rounds. The actual punchline is that we are all shocked that a hired killer for the US ...

Chance Harrison and Jaylen Garibay, seniors at Rio Mesa High School, compare data and work on an analysis they collected on student stress levels. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The ...

Last year, the Stanford Undergraduate Admissions Office changed its high school math curriculum recommendations for prospective applicants, emphasizing conceptual math courses such as algebra and ...

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Students looking for more advanced mathematics than school provides will turn elsewhere to find it. While mathematicians and parents are bemoaning the newly adopted California Mathematics Framework, ...