In high school, students use a deeper understanding of mathematics to solve real-world problems. While in elementary and middle school, the math skills children need to know are organized by grade ...

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 Department ...

Paul Gasparini, principal of Jamesville-DeWitt High School, talks in 2012 with Ben Shapiro, then a senior at the school. Many eighth- and ninth-graders at J-D and elsewhere will take two Regents ...

Under the Common Core State Standards, parents and middle school students are being asked to “restrain their ambitions and delay algebra until high school,” long-time education reporter Jay Mathews ...

Enochs students Kelsey Smallwood, left, and Aushai Devance work together in Christina Rubalcava's Secondary Math I class on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, in Modesto, Calif. [email protected] Algebra classes ...

As an 8th grade mathematics teacher and teacher of Algebra 1, I could not agree more with the article, “With Common Core, Algebra Course Undergoes a Face-Lift.” Under the common core, many states have ...

Re "The New Math: Three Concepts in Two Years; Common Core drives new look at math instruction," July 22 article: In 2008, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel recommended that schools prepare more ...

Long Island high-school students are making some headway in passing a rigorous Common Core algebra exam introduced in 2014 in an effort to boost math proficiency, new state data indicates. School ...