After several years of dedicated attention to lagging math performance, Jefferson City School District officials say they're seeing tangible results. "We have had a long-term (three-year) action plan ...
The Rogers School District is partnering with a national education organization to offer personalized math instruction for ...
Is 2/7 larger than 4/11? That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public ...
A caravan leaves the University of Nevada, Reno six times each school year for an 800-mile round trip through Ely, Elko and Winnemucca. A group of educators is traveling to provide instruction support ...
Debates over how to teach math echo the conflicts over reading instruction, and some issues are similar. But unlike math, reading—in its full sense—draws on everything a person has been able to learn.
In the education world over the past few years, a lot of attention has been paid to phonics and balanced literacy and the ways in which reading instruction practices often don’t align with what we ...
The future of math education will begin with the divorce of a very long-term marriage between math learning and grade-level instruction. “The Future of Math,” my chapter in School Rethink 2.0, ...
Math proficiency among eight graders at Albuquerque Public Schools has fallen slightly, according to last year’s state assessment, and for eighth grade students identified in the Yazzie-Martinez ...
A tentative new elementary school schedule would increase English instruction by roughly 15 minutes a day, and math by 20 ...
North Carolina Superintendent Catherine Truitt told state lawmakers Monday she wants to make big changes to how students are taught math. Truitt told the House Select Committee on Education Reform ...
Xenia — A local student is saying she is not learning math at school and she’s worried it could impact her college outlooks. “She broke down crying in the kitchen. Just broke down crying, and I don’t ...