The National Math Panel, a White House-commissioned task force, has called for a new, streamlined teaching approach for early-grades math to better prepare students for algebra. The panel’s report ...

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Policymakers up to President Joe Biden have pushed for a full return to in-person learning this year to address “learning loss” and a decline in students’ emotional well-being, among other ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge.

What is keeping girls from pursuing opportunities and careers in math? Certain barriers could be perpetuated by their teachers, a new study suggests. Starting as early as kindergarten, teachers ...

Results from North Carolina’s state exams won’t be released until September, but the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board on Tuesday discussed preliminary reports that show only 9.4% of the district’s ...

Educators seeking to improve their schools’ math offerings should look critically at state and other recommendations to ...

(NEXSTAR) — School is back in session, bringing in the first wave of students born during the pandemic, dubbed “COVID kindergartners,” into classrooms nationwide. The students older than them, however ...

A new report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education calls for a fresh national advisory panel to update two-decade-old guidance on math instruction. The study urges educators to critically ...

The report, released by Texas 2036, shows students have underperformed in national assessments like the SAT and ACT, but have also underperformed in statewide tests like the State of Texas Assessment ...