Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

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 ...

When the school began offering the advanced math course to any seventh grader, only nine passed. This marks the first time the school has seen a 100 percent pass rate — and no other school had as many ...

Houston ISD will place all current in a new "accelerated math" pathway next year, expanding access to Algebra 1 before high school and more advanced coursework later on. Starting in the 2026-27 school ...

A Massachusetts district is experimenting with universal eighth-grade algebra, raising fresh questions about access, ...