When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already ...

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past ... drop from the prior year’s 56.2% pass rate, according to the state ...

Prodded by a regents committee, administrators with the University ... According to UC data, about 80% of UC applicants take at least one course in advanced math beyond Algebra 2, usually precalculus ...

Adams: My math-and-physics-teacher husband knew that if our daughter didn't take geometry in 9th grade, she'd never get to calculus. He was right.