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San Francisco middle school students will be able to take Algebra 1 again for the first time since the Obama years — albeit as an elective.

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The seventh graders in Maddie Hines’ project-based math class in North Portland are learning all about how to run sophisticated experiments where they come up with a hypothesis, test it out using the ...

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