A California district found that higher expectations for low-performing students boosted math achievement, according to a ...

So districts simply took their ninth grade algebra textbook and content and started using it in eighth grade, he said. Minnesota now ranks lower on state-by-state comparisons of calculus enrollment ...

Justin Swasey, a 9th-grade math teacher at Headland Middle School, earned the Presidential Award for Excellence in ...

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.

This class helps me understand more topics.” Taking algebra in eighth grade sets students like the Kaczenski twins up for geometry in ninth grade, advanced algebra by 10th grade, pre-calculus in ...

The Math Placement Act requires districts to have a “multi-point, objective, fair and transparent placement process for all incoming ninth grade students.” Zepeda ruled that Palo Alto Unified ...