“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is ...

America has plenty of talented people — but a UC San Diego study finds our schools are failing to educate them. And everyone ...

A few years after Louisiana pushed schools to adopt a new, systemic approach to reading instruction, education officials want to revamp the way students learn math. Last month, the state emerged as an ...

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On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, ...

It's flattering when your kids are little, they think you know everything, until you try to help them with their math homework. "She tells me, 'Mom, Mom, this is not correct,'" said Virginie ...

Math will look and feel a lot different in San Francisco schools this year and that seems evident by the picture of the chilled-out chimpanzee on the cover of the new kindergarten textbook, with ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

The return of school has us focused on education, and with that in mind we believe it’s worth weighing in on two major changes in the way the state of Illinois measures proficiency in reading, math ...