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 ...

The State Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to remove state incentives encouraging schools to offer Algebra I in 8th grade. The move was both a vote of confidence in the new Common Core ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already passed it ...

At the state’s prodding, the proportion of students taking Algebra in eighth grade increased 60 percent over the past decade – a significant achievement. But there has not been a parallel success in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teacher writes an equation on a whiteboard during a maths lesson at a secondary school on December 1, 2014, in London, England.

Officials from Cambridge Public Schools updated the School Committee on the status of two decades-long projects — Algebra 1 in eighth grade and universal preschool — in a Tuesday meeting. The ...