How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...

Indiana high school students enroll in college at a lower rate than elsewhere in the nation and enrollment among lower-income students in the state is lower still. Many students in Indiana lack access ...

Transition to Algebra (TTA) is a year-long algebra support curriculum designed to raise the confidence and competence of ninth-grade students who are underprepared in the subject. Responding to an ...

Over 20 years ago, Bob Moses, a civil rights activist and educator, published “Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project.” In his book, Moses argued that teaching math ...

Minority students may get left behind in efforts to build an empowered mindset around math. However, education leaders from Chicago, Los Angeles and Philadelphia want to change that possibility across ...