So districts simply took their ninth-grade algebra textbook and content and started using it in eighth grade, he said. Many eighth graders aren't developmentally ready for the more complex ...

The cultural shift to the political right will have foreseeable consequences, but banning of controversial books such as “Huckleberry Finn,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Catcher in the Rye” and “The ...

Critics of the mathematics curriculum point out that the books used in algebra refer to imaginary and irrational numbers like pi. Don’t get me started on fractions. The Bible never uses the word ...