The California State Board of Education voted to adopt a new—and much-debated—math framework on Wednesday, concluding a years-long process that involved three drafts, prompted hundreds of suggested ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. The decision of whether to offer algebra in eighth grade – and when, how and for whom to accelerate math instruction – is for individual ...

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While disagreements persist about the details, experts at an EdSource roundtable agreed Thursday that California’s new K-12 math guidelines — regardless of their ultimate focus — should inspire and ...

Students looking for more advanced mathematics than school provides will turn elsewhere to find it. While mathematicians and parents are bemoaning the newly adopted California Mathematics Framework, ...

Big changes are coming to how schools teach math in California, shifts in instructional practice that could have ripple effects across the country. But that process may take a while. Last week, the ...

California students’ math scores have lagged for years and only gotten worse during the pandemic. The California State Board of Education has the job of adopting K-12 curriculum frameworks in ...

The decision of whether to offer algebra in eighth grade – and when, how and for whom to accelerate math instruction – is for individual school districts and charter schools to make, the latest draft ...

When Rebecca Pariso agreed to join a team of educators tasked in late 2019 with California’s new mathematics framework, she said she expected some controversy. But she didn’t expect her work would be ...

The way California public schools teach math isn’t working. On national standardized tests, California ranks in the bottom quartile among all states and U.S. territories for 8th grade math scores. Yet ...