While 25 percent of white students passed algebra in eighth grade in 2021, only 13 percent of Black students did, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education. A collection ...

“Algebra in eighth grade is a gateway to a lot of further ... conducted by the research organization RAND, suggests three problems at the poorest middle schools, which are disproportionately ...

How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...

This experiment did not include more advanced students who had already taken algebra in eighth grade or earlier. More than a third of the 2,000 ninth graders ... Instead of differentiating instruction ...