Common Core Standards math pushes Algebra I from eighth grade to high school, contradicting a discipline-wide consensus.

Gov. Jerry Brown evidently agrees that California’s math standards should align more closely with the national Common Core standards. On Thursday, he signed SB 1200, which will allow the State Board ...

The State Board of Education will be able to disentangle competing math standards that have been creating confusion over what should be taught in eighth grade, under a bill headed to Gov. Jerry ...

The appendix of the common-core math standards suggests a three-years-in-two option, in which students take the content of 7th grade math, 8th grade math, and Algebra 1 in the last two years of ...

U.S. 4th and 8th grade students are performing worse in math, and somewhat worse in reading, than they were two years ago, according to new data from a national test.

In 2010, the state board created dual math standards: California’s fast track to algebra and the Common Core approach, teaching fewer concepts in depth, leading to Algebra I in ninth grade.

The Maryland State Board of Education unanimously approved updated literacy and math standards for the first time in 15 years ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- The vast majority of RPS seventh-graders took the eighth-grade math Standards of Learning (SOL) test during the 2021-2022 school year, as opposed to the seventh-grade math SOL.

In mathematics, the number of states at least meeting the NAEP basic level increased for fourth-grade standards, going from 44 to 47 between 2009 to 2013. For eighth grade, the number increased ...