A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

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Long Island has largely avoided the statewide youth exodus, but a new state comptroller report warns the stability is fragile ...

Explore the roots of math anxiety in students and discover strategies to foster confidence and understanding in mathematics.

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The news isn't much better when it comes to student-loan debt. According to the Education Data Initiative, the average federal-loan balance per borrower has more than doubled since 2007, increasing ...

Scientists are mapping the characteristics that adults with ADHD share—and revealing new coping strategies for people living ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

Have you ever tried to help a child with their third-grade math homework, only to find yourself stumped? You're not alone. Many adults are surprised to discover that some of the math concepts taught ...

Nostalgia is in many ways a shoddy parlor trick, a cheap form of time travel that generally serves to mythologize one’s own past at the expense of an admittedly debased present. Of course everything ...