Robert Moses, founder of The Algebra Project, talks about his longtime efforts to help low-income students and students of color achieve math skills they need for economic success.

One of the most important was the weekly adult math literacy class hosted by the Douglass Community Coalition in collaboration with the New Orleans Algebra Project. Leadership Back Leadership ...

High schoolers deserve math instruction relevant to their lives, rather than algebra and other higher math. Opinion: High school math should be about data science, not Algebra 2 - Los Angeles Times ...

Eighth-grade math is changing: Instead of emphasizing Algebra I where only some students thrive, many schools are placing all students in the same general class that covers several concepts.

So as long as algebra is the defining math course, K-12 will have to teach it. Sponsor Message Bob Moses , the civil rights activist, started the Algebra Project , teaching concepts of algebra to ...

Project LEAP aims to smooth that transition, preparing students to speak “the language of algebra,” said Angela Gardiner, a senior researcher at TERC and a co-principal investigator on the study.

For decades, generations of Americans took the same basic high school math track. Algebra. Geometry. Algebra 2. Now, school districts across the country are overhauling their approach, combining ...

Nearly half of the wealthiest schools offered algebra to all of their eighth grade students, regardless of math ability, compared with about a third of the poorest schools. Slide from a RAND webinar, ...

In San Francisco, dismantling middle-school algebra did little to end racial inequities among students in advanced math classes. After a huge public outcry, the district decided to reverse course.