In recent years, districts across Massachusetts have been increasingly riven by controversies around advanced courses, with school systems scaling back accelerated options and provoking backlash from ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...

Cambridge school leaders presented a plan Tuesday evening to teach Algebra 1 to all eighth-grade students by 2025, following months of controversy over a district policy that limits options for ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...

Two years ago, Gov. Ron DeSantis laid out his problems with Advanced Placement courses. First, he refused to approve use of a fledgling AP African American studies course in Florida high schools, ...

GREENWICH — Greenwich students interested in music and math could soon have more options at the high school level. Officials are examining two proposals to add courses to Greenwich High School for the ...

Arizona high school students are entering college unprepared for advanced math, prompting a review of Algebra II standards. A task force recommends cutting down on the number of Algebra II topics to ...