The purpose of all of the developmental mathematics courses is to support student success academically and beyond by advancing critical thinking and reasoning skills. Specifically in Algebra I, as a ...

A high school student is tutored in algebra. Tutors and teachers report that more students struggled in the course this academic year. Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images The ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Algebra can be ...

Spurred by a succession of reports pointing to the importance of algebra as a gateway to college, educators and policymakers embraced “algebra for all” policies in the 1990s and began working to ...

If you can’t simplify the following operation, chances are the state won’t let you graduate from community college: Algebra problems like this one are at the heart of a dispute over the level of math ...