Charter schools are outperforming traditional public schools, according to a new study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes...

The geometry teacher is in Maryland. The students are in California. A small San Jose charter school is using virtual teachers and...

After 63 years of teaching high school math in Alexandria, Virginia, Lou Kokonis isn't planning to retire. The 91-year-old comes early to...

Struggle is supposed to be good for math students, writes Greg Ashman on Filling the Pail. Telling them how to solve problems is supposed...

A leprechaun has two pots of gold, each with 10 coins in it, plus three extra coins. How many coins does he have in all? Some...

Elementary students don't learn more from a teacher who matches them in race or ethnicity, concludes a new study. There is little...

New Jersey just doubled the percentage of students who are "graduation ready" in reading, writes Chrif Cerf, the former state...

The ninth-grader needed to multiple 3 x 9 to answer an algebra problem. She didn't have a calculator, and I wouldn't let her go look for...

Jayden can't read a simple story problem. Mia can't subtract, if she knew that she should be subtracting. Peyton could no more find a...

I'm so old I remember when segregation was considered a bad thing. Evanston Township High (ETHS), just north of Chicago, created...

The goal was equity. The result: Meh. Frustrated by high failure rates in eighth-grade algebra, San Francisco Unified decided in 2015 to...

Teaching phonics is a critical first step in teaching reading, but students need to build knowledge and vocabulary to get from fat cats...

Students learn more when their teachers have high expectations, concludes a study in North Carolina, reports Kevin Mahnken. Algebra...

Thinking about everything is hard, writes Greg Ashman, author of Cognitive Load Theory, on Filling the Pail. It exhausts students'...

Please "stop talking about so-called learning loss," writes Jo Boaler, a Stanford professor and math reform advocate, on the Hechinger...

Basing early literacy teaching on evidence of what works -- the "science of reading" -- has taken off in the last 10 years. Teachers are...

“What is so magical about algebra as a math requirement?” asked Eloy Ortiz Oakley, former chancellor of California’s community college...

Remote instruction led to disastrous learning losses," especially in math, according to conclusive research, writes Kevin Mahnken on The...

Math is not "neutral," argueTori Trajanovski and Cristina De Simone on The Conversation. "Biases in math exist that are grounded in...

British students who pass a national math exam at 15 or 16 don't have to take any more math, unless they need higher-level math for...