In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so. Early reading skills have been shown to have a profound ...

What is it about math that puts people off? When it comes to reading/English language arts, there is universal agreement that supporting literacy is a priority. Here in the Lowcountry, for example, ...

MathFactLab, founded by former Essex Westford elementary school teacher Mike Kenny, now has more than 1 million users all ...

Many of us grew up fearing math and believing we just weren’t good at learning the subject, but a statewide initiative is ...

Math is all around us: the music you listen to, the vehicles you drive and even the food you bake can all be represented mathematically. But for most kids - and many adults - the word math evokes ...

Illustrative Mathematics was established in 2011 at the University of Arizona as a means to assist schools in adopting the Common Core standards. It has since grown to include a K-12 math curriculum ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines that include recommending teachers stop quizzing ...

SAFE TRAVELS EVERYONE. AFTER A SUCCESSFUL FIRST YEAR, THE HEART MATH TUTORING PROGRAM IS EXPANDING IN WINSTON-SALEM. FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS, AND I’M ACTUALLY ONE OF THE VOLUNTEER TUTORS THAT GOES TO ...

School is out, the mercury is climbing at a record pace, and young people across America are at risk of losing the reading and math skills they learned during the academic year. In an average year, ...

The Calculus Project puts underrepresented students in a cohort of their peers and empowers them to soar. What’s so discriminatory about that? On a hot day last summer, I roused two reluctant ...

In a school system still in recovery from pandemic learning loss, RSM and programs like it may push the students who can afford them further ahead, leaving others on the edge of a widening educational ...