In 2014, San Francisco schools stopped offering accelerated middle school math classes and made Algebra 1 a ninth-grade math requirement, an attempt to close achievement gaps between disadvantaged ...

Automatically enrolling students in advanced courses from day one of middle school could change their math trajectory, a new ...

The algebra problem: How middle school math became a national flashpoint . ... “You have some kids who are ready for algebra in fourth grade, and they should not be denied it,” Noguera said.

But Rebecca Bowie, a resident and an eighth-grade math teacher in another district, said Algebra 1 is not the right way to increase the middle school math curriculum, and that the School Committee ...