San Diego-area Assemblymember Akilah Weber Pierson wants to assign California educators some new homework: screening kids for ...

Educators seeking to improve their schools’ math offerings should look critically at state and other recommendations to determine what works — and what doesn’t — inside their own classrooms, according ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

A new STEMscopes Math study has met Level 3 evidence requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and the core ...

Visit a class in Val Verde Unified where teachers are helping students find new ways to learn math. Visit a class in Val Verde Unified where teachers are helping students find new ways to learn math.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

Turning math learning into a social and engaging activity helps build confidence in students and also drives academic ...

Recent studies and policy reports are challenging long-held beliefs about how math skills develop and how they should be taught. Neuroscience research suggests the brain repurposes existing circuits ...

A few years after Louisiana pushed schools to adopt a new, systemic approach to reading instruction, education officials want to revamp the way students learn math. Last month, the state emerged as an ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress just painted a dismal picture of math performance in America’s schools, continuing to show more than a decade of stagnation.