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 ...

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...

School is out, but across Florida more than 200,000 students anxiously await the result of the linchpin in their high school graduation portfolio: a passing score on the Algebra 1 end-of-course exam.

Brendan Garrison has an A average and a full load of honors classes when school starts in August. He's not used to failing and he's never been in summer school. Until this year, that is. Garrison, an ...

On this year’s New York Regents Algebra I exam, which was aligned with the Common Core curriculum, the percentage of students passing fell, even as the minimum passing grade was scheduled to increase.