Next year, sixth- and seventh-graders in HISD will enroll in advanced math classes, preparing more students to take Algebra 1 ...

Houston ISD will place all sixth and seventh graders on an accelerated math pathway starting this fall, aiming for every ...

Students can’t succeed in math if they’re never exposed to it. And many students never get access to advanced—or even some foundational—math in high school. New federal civil rights data and an ...

Algebra is the one course that prevents the most people from graduating high school, and it's the single most failed course in community colleges. Now some educators are questioning whether people ...

The Palo Alto Board of Education opted Tuesday not to force local schools to adopt Multivariable Calculus at a Tuesday meeting, siding with Palo Alto and Gunn High School education councils that did ...

Briana Hampton, a San Gabriel High School junior, is determined to get into a four-year university to achieve her dream of becoming a social worker or psychiatrist. But she feared she would fail a ...

DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...

This story about math equity was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

California, along with many other states and nations, has experienced a dramatic increase of student interest in data and computer science careers. Along with the broader tech industry, these fields ...

In classrooms and communities across Arizona, thousands of students who demonstrate readiness for advanced mathematics courses are never given the opportunity to do so. This isn’t due to ability or ...

Jennifer Williams, center, teaches math at Tasby Middle School in Dallas, TX, on Sep 15, 2023. Credit: Jason Janik/Dallas Morning News The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...