While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities High school math, and algebra, in particular, is in crisis. Although some students thrive on the pathway to ...

A tug of war in San Francisco over whether to teach algebra in eighth or ninth grade gets at wider national questions about serving all students fairly. By Soumya Karlamangla How to make algebra ...

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 ...

Tom Brown, Anthropic’s co-founder and former OpenAI engineer, went from earning a B- in linear algebra to shaping the AI frontier. His journey highlights five lessons for students and young ...

Algebra is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a high school or college degree — particularly for students of color and first-generation undergrads. It is also the single most failed course in ...