Should all students take Algebra 2? Florida seemed to say “no” this spring with the passage of a law striking it from graduation requirements. Texas said much the same in legislation Republican Gov.

Students taking this year’s Algebra II exam could pass by correctly answering less than 30 percent of the test. In raw figures, a student receiving a score of 25 out of 86 would pass the Common Core ...

OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School was anything but quiet. Students chatted about the data analysis they performed on ...