Every year, a handful of fourth-graders at each of Broomfield’s four Boulder Valley elementary schools needed accelerated math. But the four or five mathematically gifted students weren’t enough to ...

New rules on participating in a program designed for math-savvy pupils in the Clear Creek school district are stirring concerns among some parents. The popular Accelerated Mathematics Program, which ...

Parents at Louisville’s Coal Creek Elementary are concerned about a decision to offer advanced math through Boulder Valley’s online school, Boulder Universal. Parents say issues include too much ...

Portland Public Schools backed off from its plan to discontinue accelerated middle school math classes this week, saying the proposal — intended to improve educational equity and boost math mastery — ...

Students in New York City’s largest school district are so bored by the DOE’s dumbed-down math curriculum they read novels in class, parents say. Families are forced to shell out thousands of dollars ...

It just didn’t add up. A top city middle school has backtracked on plans to get rid of accelerated math courses after a ferocious parental outcry this week. Lab Middle School for Collaborative studies ...

A Newport-Mesa Unified School District plan to eliminate some accelerated math classes that met with parent backlash has been postponed, but a new curriculum for teaching math will still be instituted ...

Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...

Old Dominion might want to consider a new nickname as the Virginia Department of Education moves to strip schools of accelerated math classes: New Equity. VDOE plans recently spotlighted by Loudoun ...

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is moving to eliminate all accelerated math options prior to 11th grade, effectively keeping higher-achieving students from advancing as they usually would ...

Last month the Newport-Mesa Unified School District abandoned its plan to drop some accelerated math classes after a parental backlash that appeared to take some school officials by surprise. Prior to ...

Encouraging students to take accelerated math classes in 8th grade, based on prior strong performance, increases their chances of scoring a 3 or higher on Advanced Placement math exams in high school, ...