Today, some 800,000 students nationwide take calculus in high school, about 15 percent of all high schoolers, and nearly 150,000 take the course before 11th grade. Calculus classes have been and ...

In 2011, African-American and Hispanic students made up about 30 percent of the public school district's enrollment but only about 11 ... grade," Avery says. Math experts disagree on whether ...

But the summer classes ended after 10th grade, meaning she entered calculus in 11th grade without that help, making the class more of a struggle. That convinced her that high schools should offer ...

Dee and his colleagues found that, after the policy went into effect, more students in the district took precalculus, typically offered in 11th grade. The largest gains came from Black students.