HOLLIDAYSBURG — Ninth-graders have a difficult time with algebra tests, Hollidaysburg Area School District leaders told the school board Wednesday. The low rate of ninth-graders who passed the algebra ...

Just three years ago, only a third of Hayward students took algebra in middle school. Now, almost all of the district’s eighth-graders tackle irrational numbers, absolute values and the ubiquitous ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. Imagine you’re 16. You’ve just passed ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) – Florida ninth-graders who took the state's first ever end-of-course Algebra I exam, on average, got only 41-percent of the answers correct. Education Commissioner Eric Smith ...

A nationwide network outage at Pearson, Florida’s testing company, created problems for schools administering the state’s new standardized algebra exam today, officials said. Students were able to ...

Fort Bend Independent School District trustee Cynthia Knox wants to talk about numbers. Specifically, she is concerned that three district high schools -- Bush, Hightower and Willowridge -- fall below ...

The State Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to remove state incentives encouraging schools to offer Algebra I in 8th grade. The move was both a vote of confidence in the new Common Core ...

After taking Maryland's state algebra test this year, Susan Gruenspecht's students at Westland Middle School in Montgomery County wanted to know: Where was the algebra? They were not alone. University ...