The article was updated March 5 to include the letter from high-tech executives supporting the Algebra II requirement. It also clarifies that AP Statistics is for students who have completed Algebra ...

This story was updated to include the latest available information from the president's office of the University of California. The UC faculty committee that oversees high school courses eligible for ...

Oregon’s latest summative test data show incremental progress in some areas. But overall, the state is still behind pre-pandemic performance levels, and the percentages of students who are proficient ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

Chance Harrison and Jaylen Garibay, seniors at Rio Mesa High School, compare data and work on an analysis they collected on student stress levels. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The ...

The agonizingly slow trajectory of Oregon students’ academic recovery from pandemic disruptions continued for a third straight year in 2024, dashing hopes that the state’s students would finally begin ...

For more than 30 years, calculus has been seen as the pinnacle of high school math—essential for careers in the hard sciences, and an explicit or unspoken prerequisite for top-tier colleges. But now, ...

Almost a third of first-time college students choose a major and then change it at least once within three years, and students who started out in mathematics and the natural sciences are likelier than ...

Are students’ math struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic completely unprecedented? Yes and no. Disruption in schools has also meant disruption in testing, so it’s been hard to pin down exactly how ...