California education officials set a high bar Wednesday: all eighth-grade students will be tested in algebra. While the 8-1 vote from the state Board of Education was immediately applauded by several ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) – Florida ninth-graders who took the state's first ever end-of-course Algebra I exam, on average, got only 41-percent of the answers correct. Education Commissioner Eric Smith ...

A Sacramento Superior Court judge has halted - at least for now - a controversial plan to require that all California eighth-graders be tested in Algebra 1 as early as 2011. No other state requires ...

All California eighth-graders in public school will have to take Algebra 1 beginning in 2011 under a policy approved Wednesday by the state Board of Education in an 8-1 vote. The board decided to make ...

Charter-school network Success Academy had all of its eighth-graders take the state Algebra 1 Regents exam last year — and notched a 99 percent pass rate, the network said Monday. All told, 426 ...

An algebra war is breaking out in the top levels of California government that could cause shockwaves in middle schools across the state. On Tuesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote to the president ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. States that voluntarily took part in a demanding test of advanced algebra skills, given for a second straight year, again saw large proportions of their students ...

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It looks as if nearly 40,000 Florida students will get a reprieve from taking a state algebra exam next month. The Florida Senate today passed a bill that would repeal the law requiring that the group ...

District-by-district test scores have just been released on the PARCC assessments.This is the same test aligned with the Common Core Standards and for some, there are bright spots.The new test covers ...

The bar keeps dropping on state math exams — and critics are saying it’s because officials are desperate for high graduation rates. Kids only need to score a measly 30 percent on this month’s Algebra ...

While statewide scores remained largely mixed, Houston ISD high school students saw improvement in each STAAR subject, including large gains in Algebra 1 and biology, two years into state intervention ...