Two work groups of professors will weigh in on math requirements for admissions to UC and CSU. First up: Can bolstering Introduction to Data Science with math and statistics qualify for taking Algebra ...

A tug of war in San Francisco over whether to teach algebra in eighth or ninth grade gets at wider national questions about serving all students fairly.

What’s the best way to make sure all students have access to high-level classes? In Texas, a new strategy focuses on automatically enrolling top scorers.

In San Francisco, dismantling middle-school algebra did little to end racial inequities among students in advanced math classes. After a huge public outcry, the district decided to reverse course.

Portland Public Schools is the latest urban school district to wade into the surprisingly fierce debate over who gets to take advanced math in middle school.

This wouldn’t have happened if the K-12 system had taken a more gradual approach to honing core skills.

A new Texas law calls for every student who performs in the top 40% on a fifth-grade math assessment to be enrolled automatically in advanced math for sixth grade.

Today, I want to start with a much broader question: What do we really know about how to teach math to children? The answer is not all that much—and what little we do know is highly contested.

An argument for remediation if students don't understand algebra enough to study the physical sciences, toward an overall liberal arts education.