A new study shows that high-achieving Black students are less likely to be enrolled in Algebra 1 classes in middle school compared to their non-Black peers, limiting their path to college and STEM ...

Middle schoolers' access to the course is stratified along racial, socioeconomic, and regional lines, new research finds.

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Many states are pushing students to take Algebra 1 in middle school to prepare them for advanced math in high school. A new analysis, however, suggests that increased enrollment hasn’t led to higher ...

California students who fail algebra and repeat the course are pretty much doomed to fail again, a vicious cycle that wastes limited resources and precious learning time, according to a report ...

At the state’s prodding, the proportion of students taking Algebra in eighth grade increased 60 percent over the past decade – a significant achievement. But there has not been a parallel success in ...