Notably, taking Algebra 1 and 8th grade math together boosted all students’ scores—not just those of students who were less ...

Sports provide an engaging way of exploring a host of mathematical concepts. Any hard-core baseball fan knows that the game can’t truly be appreciated without an understanding of some essential ...

Across the country, 4th and 8th graders are taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a range of subjects this month, but I’ll be paying particularly close attention to how middle ...

Middle school math doesn’t have to be worksheets and formulas — real-world, hands-on projects can make it exciting and ...

EdSource · A University of California in the heart of farm country aims to attract more students Eighth-graders in the United States have made steady progress on an international test measuring math ...

Algebra 1 in eighth grade is a gateway to higher level math, yet 1 in 4 schools in New York state don’t offer it, a new ...

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Sign up San Francisco eighth graders will have the option ...

The San Francisco school board approved a plan to restore algebra as an option at all middle schools, more than a decade after it was removed over equity concerns. By Dana Goldstein The San Francisco ...

The seventh graders in Maddie Hines’ project-based math class in North Portland are learning all about how to run sophisticated experiments where they come up with a hypothesis, test it out using the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to ...