Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Though I’m not certain of this, I suspect that algebraic problem-solving teaches ...

One of the most often repeated courses in U.S. high schools is algebra. Teachers and school leaders understandably worry whether a student who can’t solve basic equations should move on in math, to ...

4 Oregon universities created the Center for Algebraic Thinking in 2010 It has a %24740%2C000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education through 2013 The center ...

Fewer than one in three of Philadelphia School District students passed the state’s algebra exam last school year, and the system’s performance has worsened. To help stem the tide, the district — ...

Bob Moses, who helped register Black residents to vote in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, believed civil rights went beyond the ballot box. To Moses, who was a teacher as well as an ...