Add this to California school boards’ to-do lists for 2016: Create a clear-cut, objective policy for determining which incoming 9 th-grade students qualify to accelerate their sequence of math courses ...

Most students don’t aspire to careers that will require calculus, so high schools must create sequences of math courses that reflect the wide variety of young people’s occupational goals, a math ...

Palo Alto and Gunn High School education councils, which are made up of teachers and staff, declined to offer Multivariable Calculus as a high school course, instead opting to pick up a newly ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Enrolling students in high school math courses is a high-stakes endeavor with an outsize effect on students’ college ...

Algebra will soon be a course title absent from Santa Barbara Unified School District catalogs. Students will still find the slope of a line using y = mx + b, but Tuesday’s school board meeting marked ...

Declining math skills are a real problem nationally, but UC San Diego is an unusual case—and other California colleges offer a range of promising models for rethinking calculus requirements.

Math is a notorious stumbling block that trips up students seeking college degrees. Every year, tens of thousands of young people fail to graduate because they can’t earn enough math credits. To help ...