ALBANY — How can you pass a test if you only get 26 of 86 points? Take the New York State Regents Algebra 1 exam. The fuzzy math, critics say, illustrates how New York policymakers have become so ...
New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...
When thousands of high school students failed this month's Math A Regents exam, complaints from Buffalo to Oyster Bay poured in to the state Education Department. In days, the uproar grew so strong ...
Paul Gasparini, principal of Jamesville-DeWitt High School, talks in 2012 with Ben Shapiro, then a senior at the school. Many eighth- and ninth-graders at J-D and elsewhere will take two Regents ...
Test questions for Regents exams are devised in committee by some of the state's top teachers and are field tested before they make it to a Regents exam offered in January, June or August. After the ...
New York Regents exams from a previous century were significantly more challenging and comprehensive than today's. Initially designed as entrance exams in the 1800s, they included essays, diagrams, ...
The New York State Math B Regents Exam: A necessary evil or the insidious result of an education system run amok? Whatever the answer, Math B is a course dreaded by both the slackers and the ...
Sat, 19 Oct 2013 21:04:56 GMT — New York state has proposed letting eighth-graders skip the statewide math test if they take the algebra Regents test. The Wall Street Journal reports that the state ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York State released the results of Regents exams taken over the 2021-2022 school year, which includes results of how proficient high school students on Staten Island were on ...
NYC Algebra Regents scores tank amid new ‘disaster’ math curriculum Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 ...