When Senator Bill Cassidy recently questioned whether K–12 systems are adequately preparing students for college-level math, he touched a nerve in the national conversation. We see the symptoms ...

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...

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Kindergarten students counting, sorting and stacking blocks may not seem significant, but how well they understand numbers at that age can shape their confidence with math, their success in courses ...

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Eve Plumb has never hated her role as Jan Brady on “The Brady Bunch,” contrary to popular belief.Plumb makes that clear in her new memoir, “Happiness Included: Florida congressional ...

“High quality” is a mantra that state-appointed Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles and his staff sing like the hoarse refrain of a Friday night fight song. Yes, average STAAR test scores have ...

President Donald Trump has recently claimed his tariffs will generate so much money that Americans could soon stop paying federal income taxes. But experts say he's overpromised. "Over the next couple ...

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 strategies they’re using could be making things ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Last winter, the federal government released the results of its semi-annual reading and math tests of fourth- and ...