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In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

Hartford eliminated Honors Algebra I and enrolled all students in Algebra I instead, effectively eliminating ability tracking in ninth-grade math. It also encouraged teachers to recommend students for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Hope Reed was seeing stark disparities a ...

ST. LOUIS – Taking two periods of algebra in high school can lead to college attainment for low-income and minority students. That finding is from a new study, “Effects of Double-Dose Algebra on ...