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 ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

With this school year approaching, Kristin Hoppe-Doucette enrolled her daughter Kate in a secondary math program this summer in an effort to help bolster the seventh grader’s skills after noticing ...