In addition to piloting the seventh grade math and science elective, Portland raised the bar for which seventh graders get to take “compacted math,” a fast-track class that is the historical ...

Amber Glenn reflected on long-ago memories of Jason Brown and Ashley Wagner, plus recent ones with a local school class.

The competition was in Grenoble, France, but Glenn had a special audience back home in Colorado Springs: Ms. McFann’s seventh-grade math class at Chinook Trail Middle School. “I have talked (to my ...