More than 1 in 3 public school students now take Algebra 1 before high school. For those students to succeed, schools must adjust middle school programs to better match student readiness to class ...

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 ...

John C. Urschel is an assistant professor in the MIT Math Department and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He previously played for the Baltimore Ravens. This interview has been ...