Under the Common Core State Standards, Algebra 1 is a much tougher course than what was taught previously in most states, teachers and standards experts say, in part because many of the concepts that ...

Some Capital Region students will get the pleasure of taking not one but two Regents exams in algebra this month. On Tuesday, students who began studying algebra this year will have to take the ...

Algebra 1 is a much tougher course under the Common Core State Standards than it was previously in most states, as I wrote in June. Students are being introduced to algebraic concepts earlier in ...

Next fall's incoming freshman at San Francisco public high schools will have the option to test out of Algebra 1, a class now required for all ninth-grade students. San Francisco Unified School ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. naustin@modbee.com Algebra classes ...

As schools around the U.S. are transitioning to the new Common Core standards, some parents of advanced students are concerned their children will be left behind. In San Diego, Calif., school ...

Last year, only 34.5 percent of city students in grades 3 to 8 passed the math exams, and 29.4 percent passed in reading and writing. Overall, officials said, the scores inched up slightly from the ...

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 ...

The state Board of Education will vote Wednesday whether to adopt new math textbooks and other materials aligned to the Common Core standards. Credit: iStockphoto.com Updated Jan. 15 2014: With little ...