Any of us who have ever been in a math classroom know that too many kids lack fundamental arithmetic skills. It is extraordinarily difficult to teach students more advanced skills when their ability ...

AP English teacher Mark Hernandez speaks to students at Gunn High School in Palo Alto on March 16, 2022. Photo by Magali Gauthier. A judge has ruled that the Palo Alto Unified School District’s method ...

Students entering the eighth grade this year will be the first class to need to pass three years of math to graduate from Washington’s public high schools, but they’ll get some leeway in how they do ...

AUSTIN — Texas students were given course options to avoid taking Algebra 2 following new graduation requirements that were approved Friday by the state. The State Board of Education voted 14-1 to ...

Add this to California school boards’ to-do lists for 2016: Create a clear-cut, objective policy for determining which incoming 9 th-grade students qualify to accelerate their sequence of math courses ...

It should come as no surprise to anyone that to succeed in a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) field, one needs a solid foundation in mathematics. When my sons entered college, even ...