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Long a staple of the high school curriculum, the mathematics-course sequence of Algebra 1, geometry, and Algebra 2 is facing a budding challenge as schools transition to the Common Core State ...

New reading, writing and arithmetic standards that North Carolina schools began using last year aim to get students to do more than just plow through "Of Mice and Men" or crunch numbers by way of the ...