Nothing about Algebra II is easy. Educators applauded lawmakers in June for dumping Algebra II as an end-of-course exam after less than half of students passed the test over its three-year existence.

Includes updates and/or revisions. States that voluntarily took part in a demanding test of advanced algebra skills, given for a second straight year, again saw large proportions of their students ...

A Sacramento County Superior Court judge last week ordered the California state board of education to postpone its bold and expensive plan to require all 8th graders to be tested in algebra. The board ...

AUSTIN -- Algebra I is still a challenge for many Texas students, although the passing rate on the end-of-course exam rose this spring, the Texas Education Agency reported Monday. The passing rate on ...

Fort Bend Independent School District trustee Cynthia Knox wants to talk about numbers. Specifically, she is concerned that three district high schools -- Bush, Hightower and Willowridge -- fall below ...

Charter-school network Success Academy had all of its eighth-graders take the state Algebra 1 Regents exam last year — and notched a 99 percent pass rate, the network said Monday. All told, 426 ...

This principal didn’t do his math. Tyee Chin of Flushing HS — a cornerstone of Mayor de Blasio’s limping Renewal Schools program — demands that teachers aim to pass 75 percent of their students, or ...