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Steve Kelley, the bill’s co-author. “To do that, we needed to have them take Algebra I in eighth grade.” Many math experts warned against the move. “This whole idea is a very naive belief that if we ...

Steve Kelley, the bill’s co-author. “To do that, we needed to have them take Algebra I in eighth grade.” Many math experts warned against the move. “This whole idea is a very naive belief ...

Officials from Cambridge Public Schools updated the School Committee on the status of two decades-long projects — Algebra 1 in eighth grade and universal preschool — in a Tuesday meeting.

When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already ...

About half of parents surveyed say their child is doing well in math, but that drops among lower-income families.

Adams: My math-and-physics-teacher husband knew that if our daughter didn't take geometry in 9th grade, she'd never get to calculus. He was right.