As an effort to address these challenges, in 2013 Texas passed House Bill 5, an innovative education legislation that included a College Prep Mathematics course as one means to increase the number of ...

High school students planning to apply to the University of California now have a broader set of courses they can take to meet the math requirement for admission to the public university system. As ...

Forty percent of Minnesota’s recent public high school graduates who enrolled in public higher education in the state have taken at least one developmental or remedial course within two years after ...

For years, Santa Rosa high schoolers have struggled with mandatory college prep math courses. A new two year course may provide a solution. In a Santa Rosa High School math classroom, 12 students are ...

The classes students need to be eligible for university admission have been updated to reflect the Common Core standards. Photo credit: EdSource file photo The requirements of the battery of courses – ...

It’s summer, but school is not out for 80 incoming freshmen at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto. Seven hours a day, Monday through Friday, they’re in classrooms learning ...

Math at Bear Creek High School is a noisy affair. Kids constantly pop out of their seats and walk around talking to each other -- a far cry from the days when teachers lectured to hushed classrooms.

Keyari Cooper started ninth-grade algebra with a decent attitude. Math wasn't her best subject, but the Pittsburg High School student thought she had a fighting chance to pass the course. Factoring, ...

One of the overarching goals of the national push to redesign high schools is increasing the number of students who graduate ready for college. Yet pinning down what people mean by “college readiness” ...