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Strong Start to Finish—a national network dedicated to ensuring students complete gateway math and English in their first year of college and an initiative of Education Commission of the States—today ...

A Roosevelt International Middle School student takes a math enrichment class by computer at home in 2020. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Unified School District) This story first appeared at The 74, a ...

For some high school students, statistics and other data science courses have unseated calculus as the de facto option for pursuing advanced math, in part due to targeted state efforts to expand ...