When does 23 equal 55? When it comes to grading the Math A Regents exam. Never before has the state required students to answer so few questions correctly on the mandatory test to eke out a passing ...

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 ...

State Education Commissioner Richard Mills yesterday ordered a sweeping investigation of the validity of the math Regents exam, opening the door to invalidating the test and forcing thousands to ...

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 ...

Bunk questions might have thrown the results of state math tests taken by thousands of city students last month, public school teachers who gave and graded the tests say. The Regents exams for Algebra ...

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 ...

Long Island school officials are fuming over results from the state's latest Regents trigonometry exam, saying students faced questions that just don't compute. Math experts in districts where high ...

NEW YORK -- New York state has proposed letting eighth-graders skip the statewide math test if they take the algebra Regents test. that the state would have to get clearance from the U.S. Department ...