Montgomery County's failure rate for the June final exam in Algebra 1 was so steep — 82 percent for high school students — that district officials say they decided to add 15 percentage points ...

A Florida lawmaker is asking the Department of Education to take a closer look at what he calls an “unfair grading situation.”A bill passed this month eliminated the Algebra II end of ...

But his crackdown backfired. Hundreds of kids who passed their algebra classes flunked the Regents algebra exam required for graduation.

“This $1-million proposed ‘algebra light’ alternative test will be a disaster for California kids and teachers,” said Jim Lanich, president of California Business for Education Excellence ...

The State Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to remove state incentives encouraging schools to offer Algebra I in 8th grade. The move was both a vote of confidence in the new Common Core ...

Algebra I End of Course exam requirements for the A+ scholarship could soon be eliminated. The Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development announced it will seek to repeat ...

A sample of questions from this year’s New York Regents Algebra I exam, which was aligned with the Common Core curriculum.

New York State released the proficiency results of the Algebra II exam for Staten Island high school students. (Staten Island Advance/Annalise Knudson) ...