Stanford math professor Brian Conrad warned California's new 'equity'-based math curriculum could backfire as students continue to battle the impact of pandemic learning loss.

Faculty members across the University of California system are staging a behind-the-scenes protest against an admissions policy they say risks leaving their students unprepared for college-level math.

Jo Boaler, a math education professor at Stanford who has been a vocal proponent of data science, argued in an opinion piece in The Los Angeles Times that Algebra II is largely irrelevant for many ...

California education officials on Wednesday approved a long-studied overhaul of the state’s math teaching guide, with sweeping changes designed to make the subject more relevant and accessible ...

"California is promoting an approach to math instruction that's likely to reduce opportunities for disadvantaged students," writes math professor Brian Conrad. Emma Camp | 10.4.2023 6:00 AM ...

That started to change after AB 705 took effect in 2018. The Public Policy Institute of California found that between fall 2018 and 2022, the share of students starting in transfer-level math rose, as ...

California’s twice-revised framework for K-12 math instruction is on pause, likely for months, as the California Department of Education considers hundreds of line-by-line changes and lengthy ...

Katherine Stevenson, a math professor at California State University, Northridge, who has worked with teachers in Los Angeles Unified, said, “It’s very hard for teachers not to get lost in ...

Now another professor at Stanford—one who’s actually in the math department— has examined the research used to justify the new K-12 standards and finds serious flaws.

Southwestern College math professors Kimberly Eclar and Karen Cliffe said that in fall 2023, the campus opened a calculus course with a two-unit support course for students who had not taken ...