California will officially adopt a new "equity ... aims to "structure the teaching of the state’s math standards around ‘big ideas’ that integrate rather than isolate math concepts ...

When the state Department of Education released academic test scores of California’s public school students in October, it ...

Despite recent major reforms in the way math is taught in California, fewer than half of the state’s students meet or exceed the state’s grade-level standards, according to results from the Smarter ...

Only about 35% of California students met or exceeded math standards this year, only about 1 percentage point higher than the previous year. Smarter Balanced Assessment results were lower for ...

In the spring of 2015, California began administering Smarter Balanced assessments, annual standardized tests in math and English language arts aligned with the Common Core standards. Last school year ...

A law going into effect in July has some community college math professors worried it will hurt the very students it seeks to ...

San Francisco’s failed experiment to eliminate tracking of math students casts a long shadow over efforts for equity in math ...