— When Becky O’Bryant attended high school 20 years ago, she needed two general math classes to graduate. “I never took algebra, but it didn’t matter,” the Kalamazoo resident said. “I knew I wasn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite promises to focus on the growing racial and income divide among the nation’s students, new fall testing data show academic ...

In both math and science, the divide between the nation’s highest- and lowest-performing 8th graders continues to widen on national and international tests, and ongoing gaps in access and support to ...