Civil rights attorneys have called out a Chicago-area school district’s program to racially segregate English and math classes to boost minority students’ scores, saying it is “unconstitutional.” ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most U.S. high school introductory algebra courses labeled “honors” actually are no more rigorous than regular courses in the same school, according to a government curriculum ...

Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...

Malinda Evans spends about an hour and a half each day teaching mathematics to her 5th graders at Navajo Elementary School in the working-class South Valley neighborhood of Albuquerque, N.M. Whether ...

A technology institute in Kirkland is trying a new method of college placement that allows students to decide what math or English they should be taking. The program is called “guided self-placement,” ...

Eighth grade students also lost significant ground in science skills, according to the results from the National Assessment ...

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Middle school students who narrowly fail to meet the rigorous requirements needed to take Grade 8 algebra now will get another chance to take advanced algebra in Grade 9, under changes proposed by a ...

When I was in ninth grade, my English teacher assigned selections from S.I. Hayakawa’s “Language in Thought and Action.” My friends and I were initially baffled by his concepts. Still, we eventually ...

At City College of San Francisco, one of the country’s largest public universities, thousands of struggling students pour into remedial English and math classes and then the vast majority disappear, ...