On Tuesday, though, the committee dispensed with the controversial penalties and incentives surrounding 8th grade math. The State Board already has already adopted Common Core’s pre-algebra course as ...

The EdTrust, a nonprofit education advocacy group, found that based on national civil rights data, black students were underrepresented in 8th grade algebra in 37 out of 41 states with sufficient ...

A pre-algebra course gives students the fundamental knowledge they’ll need to do well when it comes time to take Algebra 1. Pre-algebra introduces topics like percentages, decimals and linear ...

Eighth grade algebra teacher Rick Riccio helps students with a problem at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga/The Hechinger Report BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period ...

The school wanted to place her not in algebra but in pre-algebra in eighth grade. “I told the school that the recommendation was ridiculous,” the father told me. ... (8th grade content). 2.

Updated at 7:16 a.m. Aug. 3. Cambridge Public Schools will phase Algebra 1 back into eighth grade math courses over the next few years. The district has faced a wave of pushback from parents and ...

But Minnesota kept universal algebra in eighth grade and to date is the only state that’s adopted and stuck with the policy. California mandated its plan in 2008 but reversed course in 2010 after a ...

“If you don’t master Algebra 1 by the end of eighth grade, you likely won’t get to precalculus by senior year,” Austin said. “That means that you cannot do well on the SATs. You will not ...

That didn’t stop San Francisco from dropping eighth-grade algebra in 2014 in the name of reducing inequities. The idea was to boost minority achievement, and the school district has claimed success.

Roughly 30% of eighth graders in the district took Algebra 1 during the 2023-24 school year, Long said. Meanwhile, some El Paso school districts have already reached or surpassed the state’s goal.