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Under the Common Core State Standards, Algebra 1 is a much tougher course than what was taught previously in most states, teachers and standards experts say, in part because many of the concepts ...
Under the common core, parents and middle school students are being asked to delay algebra until high school. But that's because Algebra I is not the course it used to be.
Some Capital Region students will get the pleasure of taking not one but two Regents exams in algebra this month. On Tuesday, students who began studying algebra this year will have to take the ...
Under the Common Core State Standards, Algebra 1 is a much tougher course than what was taught previously in most states, teachers and standards experts say, in part because many of the concepts that ...
Common Core standards for the eighth grade call for all students to learn the same general math concepts, a departure from the push toward Algebra I that middle schools made in the late 1990s and ...
The city’s high-school students were stumped by the Common Core algebra exam this year. Fueled by poor algebra-test scores, only 55 percent of kids passed the math exams, down 6 points from 2014 ...
Central NY News; Common Core dilemma: Some students will take two algebra Regents exams this year. Published: ; Nov. 04, 2013, 9:56 a.m.
Three-quarters of the state’s high-school students flunked the more rigorous Common Core algebra standards last year, data reveal. In a report to the Board of Regents, the state Education ...