The recent action by the State Board of Education, as reported by The Times in “ California mandates testing every eighth-grader in algebra — ready or not,” is a disappointment for those involved at ...

Sacramento County Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the state Board of Education to postpone its plan to force all California eighth-graders to be tested in algebra. The state Board of Education ...

California has taken a bold step to lead the nation by setting the highest expectations in the country for our eighth-grade students in mathematics. Earlier this month, the state Board of Education ...

All California eighth-graders in public school will have to take Algebra 1 beginning in 2011 under a policy approved Wednesday by the state Board of Education in an 8-1 vote. The board decided to make ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A judge on Friday blocked a plan to make California the first state in the nation to require algebra testing for all eighth-graders. The ruling sidelines an ...

A nationwide network outage at Pearson, Florida's testing company, created problems for schools administering the state's new standardized algebra exam today, officials said. Students were able to ...