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 ...

Three-quarters of the state’s high-school students flunked the more rigorous Common Core algebra standards last year, data reveal. In a report to the Board of Regents, the state Education Department ...

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 ...

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 ...

As an 8th grade mathematics teacher and teacher of Algebra 1, I could not agree more with the article, “With Common Core, Algebra Course Undergoes a Face-Lift.” Under the common core, many states have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If a student’s transcript shows the successful completion of Algebra 2, what does that really mean? Although a lot more students today are completing the course, a new analysis suggests that line on ...

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 ...

An education committee recommended Tuesday that the state stop docking the test scores of districts that don’t offer Algebra I in 8th grade. The recommendation by the Public Schools Accountability Act ...