Most days in Molly Schaefer’s 8th grade geometry class, her students are focused on math concepts—learning about radians or cross-sections of three-dimensional figures. But one Friday about a month ...

The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to ...

Encouraging students to take accelerated math classes in 8th grade, based on prior strong performance, increases their chances of scoring a 3 or higher on Advanced Placement math exams in high school, ...

In Gilroy Prep’s eighth-grade math class, there are no quiet rows of orderly desks facing an instructor. Instead, the room feels less like a classroom and more like the floor of a stock exchange, with ...

Persell 7th graders work on an assignment in math class. Compared to when he first began teaching math over a decade ago, a “quiz day” in David Gee’s 7th- and 8th-grade math class looks quite ...

My son failed his 7th-grade math class. The school told me I had two options: make him repeat 7th grade (which they discouraged me from doing) or send him to 8th grade. But if he couldn’t handle ...