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.

Students “lost out on about 35% of a normal school year’s worth of learning” when in-person learning stopped during the public health crisis, according to a paper published Monday in the journal ...

Middle school math teachers are all too familiar with a question—usually uttered with a groan—that students ask when they make an unsettling shift into more complex content: “When am I ever going to ...

Our analyses of the mathematics to be learned, our reading of the research in cognitive psychology and mathematics education, our experience as learners and teachers of mathematics, and our ...

Despite billions in federal aid, students are not making up ground in reading and math: “We are actually seeing evidence of backsliding.” By Sarah Mervosh Despite billions of federal dollars spent to ...

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A little stress can motivate, but teachers increasingly report their students’ fears over math interfere with their learning. In a nationally representative survey conducted this spring, nearly all ...

American students have fallen further behind in reading skills since the pandemic and have made little progress in math on the standardized test known as the nation’s report card. Results released ...

One of the joys of being an educator is embracing all the differences every student brings to the classroom, while teaching them to celebrate those unique traits in themselves and each other. Yet, ...

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. One by one, they raced to a table where a tutor watched them ...