Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...

Alabama’s 2022 law reshaped math instruction at the elementary level by providing money for all schools to hire math coaches ...

Math scores across the board have risen in the years after the pandemic, but a stubborn gap remains between poor schools and the state average.

After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT scores are plummeting, a stunning new report has found. Even more shocking: ...

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Across the United States, educators are facing a slow but serious shift in student performance—one that has grown quietly for years but is now impossible to ignore. Colleges once expected incoming ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Basic math can sometimes cause the biggest arguments. This man was working as a cashier and encountered a difficult mother-and-daughter customer. They were questioning him about the amount he charged.

Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

Once kids become first graders, many have started to see relationships between numbers and are using early math skills in their lives. Addition and subtraction are often the main focus in school, so ...