Includes updates and/or revisions. Chicago students’ test scores increased after they were enrolled in “double-dose” algebra classes, though the policy’s impact on their grades and course failure ...

Martin Gartzman sat in his dentist’s waiting room last fall when he read a study in Education Next that nearly brought him to tears. A decade ago, in his former position as chief math and science ...

A trio of researchers, one from Saint Louis University, the other two from the University of Chicago, has found that offering double-dose algebra instruction to struggling 9th grade students can lead ...

ST. LOUIS -- In the United States, low-income and minority students are completing college at low rates compared to higher-income and majority peers -- a detriment to reducing economic inequality.

ST. LOUIS – Taking two periods of algebra in high school can lead to college attainment for low-income and minority students. That finding is from a new study, “Effects of Double-Dose Algebra on ...

In 2003, Chicago public schools assigned ninth-graders with below-average math scores to "Double Dose Algebra," a curriculum consisting of one period of algebra and a second period of algebra support, ...

Martin Gartzman sat in his dentist's waiting room last fall when he read a study in Education Next that nearly brought him to tears. A decade ago, in his former position as chief math and science ...

Ninth-graders in Chicago Public Schools have significantly benefited from double-dose algebra (attending two consecutive periods of the subject) in ways that were not easily observable in the ...