LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Education says it’s setting the record straight about accelerated math courses after a conflicting social media post from a school board member.

The Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education declined to decide on a flexible student mathematics-acceleration program for its middle schools on Tuesday night, Nov. 14, instead leaving the ...

MATTAPOISETT — Superintendent Michael S. Nelson and his central office team have announced that students in grades 3 through 10 in the Old Rochester Regional School District MA Superintendency Union ...

The Quakertown School Board discussed ways to better prepare its students for new state education requirements. Thursday night it discussed the Math Acceleration Plan throughout the District. The ...

As the pandemic continues to impact another school year, a lot of focus has been on “accelerating learning,” which is about maintaining on-grade level instruction or infusing pre-requisite skills in ...

Enrolling students in high school math courses is a high-stakes endeavor with an outsize effect on students’ college opportunities and even on their entire careers. The pressure to reach Calculus by a ...

For the decade before the adoption of Common Core State Standards in 2010, the policy of the State Board of Education was to make Algebra I the standard course for 8 th-graders so they could progress ...

In late April 2021, various right-leaning news outlets ran inaccurate headlines stating that the state of Virginia would eliminate accelerated math courses for all students in grades below 11th, ...

There is another way the term “acceleration” can be used in math, however, and that pertains to moving students beyond grade-level instruction. Sometimes 5 th grade students are accelerated into 7 th ...