EdSource · School screen time is rising. California parents are asking where to draw the line High school math should be more practical, more engaging, and without tracking systems that place some ...

The school tracking wars of the 1990s have faded. Most educators have concluded that tracking – grouping by ability in specific subjects – generally hurts low-income students and doesn’t help the well ...

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his ...

A major association of math teachers has issued a call for rethinking math education in pre-K–12. Among the recommendations: to stop the practice of student and teacher tracking and to focus on ...

More than half of U.S. states now recognize that their traditional approaches, including math tracking, often advantage an elite few while overlooking the needs of the broader student population.

Children with developmental disabilities, or who struggle with vocabulary as toddlers, are at risk of developing persistent math difficulties—and boosting a child’s reading skills, ensuring access to ...

Pamela Fox is a mother of four and former lawyer who cares about the schools in Fairfax County, Va. She was appalled by the website of the Virginia Mathematics Pathways Initiative (VMPI), described by ...

The Rancho Santa Fe School District adopted an advanced math pathway Oct. 2 for grades 4-8. In meeting with the district’s team of teachers, math specialists and principals, Superintendent Lindy ...

Imagine if schools used students’ foreign language proficiency to determine which math courses they could take. As ridiculous as that sounds, the opposite is a commonplace practice in U.S. high ...