O ne of the biggest roadblocks to student success, according to many educators, is college algebra, the traditional gateway college math course. Students with weak math skills often get stuck in ...

The recommendation in California’s proposed new framework for mathematics to develop new pathways for 11th- and 12th-grade students could result in reducing college and career options in STEM fields ...

Colleges nationwide have been embracing developmental education reforms. A popular reform is math pathways, which places students in math classes that relate to their intended majors and abilities, ...

Each institution in the University of North Carolina system is formally committing to the core recommendations of System Math Pathways. The pathways programs aims to remove roadblocks for students who ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Center for American Progress released a new report looking at how implementing high-quality, evidence-backed math pathways can better prepare students for college and/or ...

Most students don’t aspire to careers that will require calculus, so high schools must create sequences of math courses that reflect the wide variety of young people’s occupational goals, a math ...

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Experts are questioning the relevance of pushing all college-bound students to take calculus, arguing that the “narrow pathway toward calculus … fails to serve most students.” Credit: Erika Rich for ...

The Virginia Mathematics Pathways Initiative (VMPI), an equity-focused educational program that would have eliminated all accelerated math courses before 11th grade, is no longer. The initiative was ...

The claim: Virginia schools are eliminating advanced math classes for students under 11th grade, citing "equity" The Virginia Department of Education has announced a proposal that would "modernize and ...