In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

Algebra has long been a fundamental part of any high school math curriculum. In many places it's become a fundamental part of the middle school math curriculum, too. In recent years, more students ...

Under the Common Core State Standards, Algebra 1 is a much tougher course than what was taught previously in most states, teachers and standards experts say, in part because many of the concepts that ...

Justin Van Zandt is a busy dad. He has five kids, all under 18 years old, and holds down a demanding full-time job. But that doesn’t stop him from spending all his free time teaching and tutoring his ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) - Algebra 1 is the most failed class in high schools across the country. At Green Mountain High School in Lakewood, a student-turned-teacher, who failed Algebra himself, is ...

El Paso Independent School District middle schoolers will be automatically enrolled in an advanced math class starting in August, with the plan of getting nearly all eighth graders enrolled in Algebra ...

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...

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San Franciscans voted Tuesday to solve the problem of algebra by demanding that the district bring the subject back into middle schools under Proposition G, as the Chronicle reported. San Francisco ...

Asher Wallen is a friendly guide through the rite of passage known as algebra class. An eighth-grader at Buist Academy in downtown Charleston, Asher is helping his fellow students navigate Algebra 1 ...