A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is ...

University of California faculty and administrators have been debating a change to required courses that sounds like a small issue, but that should have the academic sphere asking these questions ...

America has plenty of talented people — but a UC San Diego study finds our schools are failing to educate them. And everyone ...

A new report from UCSD demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college-level math courses.

High school math, and algebra, in particular, is in crisis. Although some students thrive on the pathway to calculus, most do not. Algebra I is the single most failed course in American high schools.

Unlike the Science of Reading initiative that received $164 million in dedicated funding, the math plan must rely on existing ...

This story was updated to include the latest available information from the president's office of the University of California. The UC faculty committee that oversees high school courses eligible for ...

Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since ...

DPI says the proposed new math standards will help make the courses more meaningful for students in life after high school.

Algebra has long been a fundamental part of any high school math curriculum. In many places it's become a fundamental part of the middle school math curriculum, too. In recent years, more students ...