Montgomery County's failure rate for the June final exam in Algebra 1 was so steep — 82 percent for high school students — that district officials say they decided to add 15 percentage points to all ...

A little more than half of Montgomery County's 25 high schools had failure rates of more than 70 percent for the final exam in Algebra 1 in June, even after the district added 15 percentage points to ...

Almost 60 percent of Florida students who took the state's tough new Algebra I end-of-course exam earned a passing grade, according to results released by the state on Friday. But that means almost 60 ...

A Sacramento County Superior Court judge last week ordered the California state board of education to postpone its bold and expensive plan to require all 8th graders to be tested in algebra. The board ...

AUSTIN -- Algebra I is still a challenge for many Texas students, although the passing rate on the end-of-course exam rose this spring, the Texas Education Agency reported Monday. The passing rate on ...

Spurred by a succession of reports pointing to the importance of algebra as a gateway to college, educators and policymakers embraced “algebra for all” policies in the 1990s and began working to ...

Fort Bend Independent School District trustee Cynthia Knox wants to talk about numbers. Specifically, she is concerned that three district high schools -- Bush, Hightower and Willowridge -- fall below ...

This principal didn’t do his math. Tyee Chin of Flushing HS — a cornerstone of Mayor de Blasio’s limping Renewal Schools program — demands that teachers aim to pass 75 percent of their students, or ...