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In 2015, the first year of Algebra II testing, 64 percent of students statewide failed the exam but it didn't affect final grades.
A little more than half of Montgomery County's 25 high schools had failure rates of more than 70 percent for the final exam in Algebra 1 in June, even after the district added 15 percentage points ...
Montgomery County's failure rate for the June final exam in Algebra 1 was so steep — 82 percent for high school students — that district officials say they decided to add 15 percentage points ...
The state’s final exam for Algebra 1 is the only one with such power — the only one the law says you must not only take, but must pass to graduate.
Palo Alto High School is invalidating scores of an Algebra 2 final exam taken by 112 students after cheating was uncovered by teachers. In an email to parents and students Wednesday afternoon ...
Students across the country struggled with advanced algebra on a first-of-its-kind test in that subject, according to a report to be released this week.
Officials at Palo Alto High School have invalidated final exams taken by more than 100 students last month, after the school said they uncovered cheating.
Federal officials have complained that California established algebra as eighth-grade material but didn’t require students to take the algebra test. Instead, they could take the more basic ...
St. Johns County students ranked top in the state in Algebra I results that the Florida Department of Education released Friday. In all, 81 percent of students in the county scored at Level 3 or ab… ...
The city’s high-school students were stumped by the Common Core algebra exam this year. Fueled by poor algebra-test scores, only 55 percent of kids passed the math exams, down 6 points from 2014 ...
Middle school students in the Conestoga Valley School District topped the charts in achievement in the Keystone algebra I exam in 2013.