Math literacy is increasingly recognized as a fundamental civil right for securing a living wage and participating fully in modern society. This belief was strongly advocated by civil rights activist ...

Mar. 22—Officials within the Ottumwa Community School District touted the short-term improvement in literacy and math skills this school year, but acknowledged there is more to be done during Monday's ...

Test after test of U.S. students’ reading and math abilities have shown scores declining since the pandemic. Now, new results show that it’s not just children whose skills have fallen over the past ...

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic requires some serious math literacy. There’s a daily dose of statistics on the number of new cases, and constant talk of “flattening the curve” of infections. But ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — New Haven Public Schools released an update on its tutoring initiative launched in 2023 to boost math and literacy scores and address the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on ...

Schools are starting to switch from learning math through memorization to learning it by problem-solving, focusing on understanding concepts. Ashwaubenon added class time to math and ELA in middle ...

This question is meant to be provocative, and it was inspired by a Tweet from an economist named Dr. Julie Pierce. The longer the crisis goes on and the more comments I read, the more I wonder how ...

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The Nation’s Report Card makes one thing painfully clear: American kids are failing in math, and the education system has been failing them for decades. New research from National Center for Education ...