New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...

Scores on Algebra 1 Regents exam plummeted by 14 percentage points at south Queens schools that used a controversial new curriculum teachers have blasted as “a complete disaster,” a superintendent ...

BRADENTON -- Manatee County students who failed the new state-mandated end-of-course exams in Algebra 1 -- about 1,300 of them last school year -- have the first opportunity next week to re-take the ...

A little more than half of Montgomery County's 25 high schools had failure rates of more than 70 percent for the final exam in Algebra 1 in June, even after the district added 15 percentage points to ...

School is out, but across Florida more than 200,000 students anxiously await the result of the linchpin in their high school graduation portfolio: a passing score on the Algebra 1 end-of-course exam.

The day of her son's eighth-grade promotion ceremony in Montgomery County, Susan Townsend got word that the teen had failed his Algebra 1 final exam. She says she was surprised, since he is a good ...

Florida students made strong gains on the state’s key algebra 1 exam this year, with 62 percent passing — up from 55 percent last year, according to results released today. But the state’s 10th ...