My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon

One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...
dcnewsnow

DC students compete in citywide math competition at Nationals Park

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Students from D.C. public and charter schools stepped into Nationals Park this week for a different kind of competition focused on mathematics in baseball. Students competed ...
The Register-Herald

Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to decline

Researchers are warning that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession, a slide that predates the COVID-19 pandemic. A new ...

Kids' test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains

Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some ...
MarketersMEDIA Newsroom

STEM Junction Expands Structured STEM Education Pathways in Texas

STEM Junction expands its Texas-aligned STEM education model through robotics, coding, AI learning, and college math ...
WRAL

DPI outlines changes to proposed math overhaul, wants new classes to be available to all

State education leaders are revising their draft standards that would make fundamental changes to how students -- especially high school students -- learn and engage with math. But some State Board of ...
Times of San Diego

California, four other states praised for aligning high school and college math

A Roosevelt International Middle School student takes a math enrichment class by computer at home in 2020. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Unified School District) This story first appeared at The 74, a ...
The New York Times

Smaller Classes: Mamdani Does the Math

The mayor would need $700 million for teachers to reduce class sizes in line with a state mandate. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at what it will take to reduce class ...
The Clarion-Ledger

First reading, now math. MS senator wants to repeat 'Mississippi miracle'

Mississippi senators have passed the "Mississippi Math Act" to reform elementary school math education. The bill proposes placing math coaches in schools and implementing early screening for students.
The Conversation

Increasing math scores: Why Ontario needs early numeracy screening

Ontario’s 2024-25 Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) standardized test results were recently released, and almost half (49 per cent) of Grade 6 students in English-language schools ...
Oregonian

Portland Public Schools is trying to close the algebra access gap. Early evidence suggests it’s working

The seventh graders in Maddie Hines’ project-based math class in North Portland are learning all about how to run sophisticated experiments where they come up with a hypothesis, test it out using the ...
Cleveland.com

When math teachers leave, students pay the price: Patricia Levesque

Walk into many school district offices today, and you’re likely to hear a troubling narrative: They don’t have enough effective math teachers to support their students. New research from the ...