When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing High school math should be more practical, more engaging, and without tracking systems that place some students — often ...

What happens when the systems in which we teach no longer work for the students we serve? Do we hunker down and just teach? Or do we speak up publicly about the structures that perpetually hold ...

A major association of math teachers has issued a call for rethinking math education in pre-K–12. Among the recommendations: to stop the practice of student and teacher tracking and to focus on ...

Imagine if schools used students’ foreign language proficiency to determine which math courses they could take. As ridiculous as that sounds, the opposite is a commonplace practice in U.S. high ...

Children with developmental disabilities, or who struggle with vocabulary as toddlers, are at risk of developing persistent math difficulties—and boosting a child’s reading skills, ensuring access to ...

Hope Reed was seeing stark disparities a decade ago at her high school in the suburbs of Columbia, South Carolina. Nearly half the school's students were white, but the freshman remedial math classes ...

Still, tracking returned to Blythewood’s math classes. A small group of students continued to struggle with the material despite the support from the math seminar, Reed said. By the middle of the 2014 ...

A plan to reimagine math instruction for 6 million California students has become ensnared in equity and fairness issues — with critics saying proposed guidelines will hold back gifted students and ...