A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

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

Editorial written by Bloomberg Opinion Board Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the ...

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

By Bill Bucher Jr. A good friend of mine once shared with me this little nugget of wisdom: “If you recognize that four out of five American citizens aren’t capable of doing basic mathematics,” he said ...

Assigning one letter grade to an entire school is tricky business. But do they lead to bigger divides between “good” schools ...

Mallory Crist has spent her entire 18-year teaching career in her hometown, including teaching third grade for the last 16 ...

CRESSON — Penn Cambria High School is outperforming state averages in algebra, literature and biology “pretty consistently,” assistant to the superintendent Jeanette Black said during Tuesday’s school ...

This month, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories: “I follow directions,” “I understand math,” “I like to read,” and one ...

This month, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories: “I follow directions,” “I understand math,” “I like to read,” and one we ...