But under a 2006 Minnesota law designed to boost the number of students going into math and science careers, all eighth graders were required to take Algebra I. At the time, legislators argued that ...

Eighth grade algebra teacher Rick Riccio helps students with a problem at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga/The Hechinger Report BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic ...

Eighth grade test scores in Maryland have been declining for many years — and not just because schools shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Math and reading scores tested annually have steadily ...

Charter school students in Washington, D.C.’s high-poverty Ward 8 far outshined their peers citywide in mathematics last year ...

The results of an international test of academic skills released recently show dire declines in math for U.S. fourth- and eighth-grade students. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's school board could vote Tuesday night on bringing back algebra for students in 8th grade after the district eliminated the course from its middle schools a decade ago.

SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...

WASHINGTON STATE — In a KOMO News Waste Watch Report, the math isn't penciling out in Washington. Math proficiency scores dropped again among the state's 8th-grade students, according to the National ...

While officials at the U.S. Department of Education expressed concern with results of the “Nation’s Report Card,” noting that it depicts a “heartbreaking reality,” Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois ...