The National Math Panel, a White House-commissioned task force, has called for a new, streamlined teaching approach for early-grades math to better prepare students for algebra. The panel’s report ...

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

2008-05-25T02:12:39-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/2d1/205542-m.jpgA hearing was held on the report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. The panel was ...

Results from North Carolina’s state exams won’t be released until September, but the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board on Tuesday discussed preliminary reports that show only 9.4% of the district’s ...

High school math should be more practical, more engaging, and without tracking systems that place some students — often low-income, African-American or Latino — in less challenging classes that leave ...

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The report, released by Texas 2036, shows students have underperformed in national assessments like the SAT and ACT, but have also underperformed in statewide tests like the State of Texas Assessment ...

(CNN) — Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment that shows the devastating impact of Covid-19 on ...

What is keeping girls from pursuing opportunities and careers in math? Certain barriers could be perpetuated by their teachers, a new study suggests. Starting as early as kindergarten, teachers ...

Ayub Mohamed, 7, gets help from volunteer tutor Esmeralda Jimenez, 13, while Olivia Elaydo, 7, and Eden Pollard, 6, work on math problems during a summer tutoring program with School Connect WA at ...

This is some bad math. New York funnels more money into its schools than any state in the nation — with only mediocre results to show for it, a withering report released Friday reveals. Spending on ...

American students' reading and math skills were severely damaged during the coronavirus pandemic across almost all demographics. A report on the nation's plummeting test scores was published by the ...