The revolt against i-Ready: Private equity-backed company faces parent, teacher and student fury

A growing number of families and educators say they’re fed up with i-Ready’s personalized math and reading lessons, which ...
KQED

Do Math Drills Help Children Learn?

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page worksheets in addition, subtraction, ...
Microsoft

AI helps create personalized math lessons for students

Like many students around the world, Eithne, 14, in Chorley, United Kingdom, was struggling to keep up in math at school after more than a year of COVID-19 related disruptions. In June 2021, her ...
Education Week

How Parents and Schools Can Work Together to Keep Math Learning on Track

When the coronavirus pandemic forced schools to abruptly switch to distance learning, many parents found themselves taking on a teaching role—including helping their children with math, a subject many ...
KQED

To Boost Math, Schools Try Having Young Children Change Classes for the Subject

BATON ROUGE, La. — About two dozen second graders sat on the carpet at the front of Jacquelyn Anthony’s classroom, reviewing how to make tens. “Two needs eight!” the students yelled out together. “Six ...
The Hechinger Report

Kindergarten math is often too basic. Here’s why that’s a problem

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...