Students who take General Math in 9th grade are lowered two levels. Bill Honig, who chairs a commission advising the State School Board on Common Core, explains that the new 8th grade Common Core math ...

There is no correlation nationwide between eighth-grade algebra policies and performance in algebra, Lawless said. At Horace Mann Middle School in Los Angeles, 214 eighth-graders, nearly half ...

Eighth-grade math is changing: Instead of emphasizing Algebra I where only some students thrive, many schools are placing all students in the same general class that covers several concepts.

All California eighth-graders in public school will have to take Algebra 1 beginning in 2011 under a policy approved Wednesday by the state Board of Education in an 8-1 vote.

Eighth grade algebra teacher Rick Riccio helps students with a problem at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report “Can I try it?” said James Belland, a ...

According to a new nationally representative survey released Tuesday, 65% of U.S. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students.

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The EdTrust, a nonprofit education advocacy group, found that based on national civil rights data, black students were underrepresented in 8th grade algebra in 37 out of 41 states with sufficient ...

A 2006 study of 2,634 students in a large southeastern school district by researcher Frances R. Spielhagen found that those who took Algebra 1 in eighth grade did as well as similar students who ...

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 ...

Nearly half of the wealthiest schools offered algebra to all of their eighth grade students, regardless of math ability, compared with about a third of the poorest schools. Slide from a RAND webinar, ...

A recent lesson in teacher Mike Taliana’s algebra class at Oceanside’s Lincoln Middle School: Write the equation of the line with y intercept = 3 and perpendicular to y = ½x + 4. A… ...