One of the most vexing problems for community colleges is the number of first-year students whose math scores don’t measure up. About half of all students who graduate from Washington high schools and ...

Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012. Let’s call her Veronica. On her schedule is a math class full of other ninth graders repeating ...

T hey’ve tried compressing it, breaking it into bite-size chunks, computerizing it, even making it optional. But the traditional, prerequisite remedial course that generations of underprepared ...

High school students planning to apply to the University of California now have a broader set of courses they can take to meet the math requirement for admission to the public university system. As ...

State Superintendent Catherine Truitt wants elementary and middle schools to provide students with at least 60 minutes a day of math instruction to boost their math skills. Truitt presented to a state ...