BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already passed it ...

Peering beneath the hood of a national push to have all students take algebra by eighth grade, a new study out today finds that many of the nation\\\\\'s lowest-performing middle-schoolers are in way ...