Anxious about math? Learn your times tables and it won't seem so scary

Memorizing times tables has returned to Virginia's Standards of Learning, after a six-year exile, writes Todd Truitt. But he fears...

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Anxious about math? Learn your times tables and it won't seem so scary

Memorizing times tables has returned to Virginia's Standards of Learning, after a six-year exile, writes Todd Truitt. But he fears...

Joanne Jacobs

It's possible to get into Harvard without basic algebra skills

Harvard has added an introductory math course for students who are weak on basic algebra.

Joanne Jacobs

How to get students to show up: Bribery? Tough love?

Paying chronic absentees $50 for each week of perfect attendance -- a desperation move in Oakland high schools -- hasn't made much of a...

Joanne Jacobs

200-day school year boosts reading scores -- and attendance

Adding 20 days to the school year improved reading scores at two Richmond elementary schools.

Joanne Jacobs

A la carte learning in Florida

Alicia Garcia was a part-time cooking teacher before the pandemic closed Florida schools, writes Ron Matus on Next Steps. Now the former...

Joanne Jacobs

A rifle for Christmas: Are parents responsible for their kids' crimes?

He'd left his alcoholic, drug-addicted wife, taking custody of his teenage son. His son was bullied in middle school, then accused of...

Joanne Jacobs

Worried parents may push back on 'phone-free schools'

The phone-free schools movement is spreading: South Carolina just became the latest state to restrict cellphones in school. Students will...