Nassau County School District has been ranked #1 in Florida for the 2024–2025 school year, according to the Florida ...

Historically speaking, Algebra 1 has been reserved for ninth or tenth grade, and research indicates the majority of students still wait until high school for this course.

Algebra 1 in eighth grade has been a stretch. “I could do multiplication tables, all that stuff great,” he said. “Then you ...

Students identified as National Math Stars could receive more than $100,000 in philanthropic support altered to their ...

Florida public school students showed significant growth on mathematics and reading exams this year, improving their passing ...

Students in grades three, six ad seven had improved performances on the math end-of-course exam. The 65% of 6th-graders who ...

Last school year, 47% of eighth-grade students passed the end-of-grade math exam. The Math 1 exam passing rate was 37% for high school students but 51% if you include the eighth-grade students who ...

Black and Hispanic high school students in Austin also underperformed their peers statewide, most notably in Algebra 1. On the math test, 26% of Hispanic and 17% of Black students met grade level ...

Completing Algebra 1 in eighth grade has also been linked to higher wages. In California, lawmakers decided students would need to wait until high school to take Algebra 1 in hopes of addressing ...

Almost one-in five students scored far above the math standards for their grade. But almost 45% scored below expectations. 19.8% of students were 'advanced' compared to grade-level standards.

Photo courtesy Socorro Independent School District Elizbeth Sierra, an eighth grade Algebra 1 teacher at Willima D. Slider Middle School, teaches students to plot a graph from an equation.

She struggled so much that it hurt her confidence in math. “I didn’t understand it and still don’t,” she said. She wants to be a nurse. “Actually, that takes too much math,” she said. “Maybe a teacher ...