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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With fewer questions and no time limits, this month’s Common Core tests in English Language Arts and math will still be a challenge for city students. It’s the fourth year of the statewide exams that ...

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 ...

Erin Kiley teaches algebra at Syracuse's Grant Middle School last year. She is helping Norge Rodriguez., left, and Rubanel Serrano. New York Education Commissioner John King wrote in a letter to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tens of thousands of eighth-graders still face an uphill battle in high school despite the city’s boast that more students passed the 2017 state Common Core exams. In math, 21,738 city eighth-graders ...

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 ...

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South Carolina has replaced the Common Core State Standards with a new set of K-12 math and language arts standards developed by an in-state team of educators, my colleague Andrew Ujifusa reported ...