The Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education declined to decide on a flexible student mathematics-acceleration program for its middle schools on Tuesday night, Nov. 14, instead leaving the ...

Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...

The Manhasset School District is considering changes to its accelerated math and science AP intensive program, including moving the math program start from sixth to seventh grade and making the ...

Elementary teachers at Boulder Valley’s online school, Boulder Universal, saw their students make more progress than expected after getting extra, targeted help in reading through an online format. So ...

Students no longer have to be in advanced in math to be in advanced placement for science at Manhasset schools, district officials announced at the Thurday, Sept. 25 board of education meeting. The ...

Accelerated Math, a software tool for middle school math used in an estimated 30,000 schools nationwide, has been found to have “no discernable effect” on student achievement by federal officials who ...

The Virginia Department of Education is seeking to eliminate its accelerated math programs below 11th grade, citing “equity” as one of the catalysts for its changes to the mathematics curriculum. The ...

Re-thinking acceleration practices will include creating coherent pathways that maintain the entire breadth and depth of K-8 mathematics learning. Below are four steps to determine if – and how – your ...

In late April 2021, various right-leaning news outlets ran inaccurate headlines stating that the state of Virginia would eliminate accelerated math courses for all students in grades below 11th, ...

Next fall, 26 of the sharpest fifth-grade minds at Potomac Elementary School will study seventh-grade math. The rest of the fifth grade will learn sixth-grade math. Fifth-grade math will be left to ...

As the pandemic continues to impact another school year, a lot of focus has been on “accelerating learning,” which is about maintaining on-grade level instruction or infusing pre-requisite skills in ...