I started teaching special education in 1970, prior to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, or PL 94-142. I welcomed the enactment of that legislation, because it forced school ...

After months of work and disappointing results on its last round of goals, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday voted 8-1 for literacy and math goals designed to shape the next six years of ...

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board took a first stab Tuesday at new five-year academic goals designed to prepare more students for success in school and adult life. Members spent almost five hours ...

Missouri became the latest state to adopt a new set of education benchmarks to replace the national Common Core standards, ditching the benchmarks Tuesday following conservative backlash. The State ...

Each activity will start with a list of learning outcomes and goals. Learning outcomes tell students what they need to be able to master in order to succeed on exams and homework. Learning goals tell ...

A few years ago, third-grade teacher Laura Metrano considered herself strictly a language-arts person. “I am a writer and a reader,” she said during a break in her school day at Springhurst Elementary ...

Students in Miss Faro’s mathematics classes at the Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark each created a mathematics goal that they wanted to complete before the end of the year. Each student wrote his ...

Lisa Ashe, and expert in math education, says North Carolina is on the right track to improve students' math scores.

Legislators are considering a bill that would establish the Mississippi Math Act and require implementing interventions similar to those that led to the state’s celebrated gains in reading. Wake up ...

With school recently starting across many parts of the nation, it's time to think about how you plan to help your child -- or the other kids in your life -- succeed in math this year. But what about ...

College classes are hard. As an agriculture communications student back in the day I remember wondering why I needed to learn certain skills — like advanced math. I mean, my communications focus was ...