San Francisco school board votes to reinstate eighth-grade algebra districtwide after a decade-long policy shift led to lower ...

An education committee recommended Tuesday that the state stop docking the test scores of districts that don’t offer Algebra I in 8th grade. The recommendation by the Public Schools Accountability Act ...

Math proficiency among eight graders at Albuquerque Public Schools has fallen slightly, according to last year’s state ...

With New York state ready to hand out the Common Core exam this spring, how tough is the test? See how much math you remember from grade school with these sample questions from the Grade 8 Mathematics ...

A typical 8th grade math textbook includes just a handful of real-world problems for students to solve, finds a new international study. And that’s not enough, according to William Schmidt, ...