Fourth- and eighth-graders' math and reading proficiency fell across the country after two years of disruption, reports the National...

Would-be doctors have to get through organic chemistry, a tough class that can be a dream killer. When NYU pre-meds earned poor grades...

Desperately trying to get failing students to a diploma, counselors are putting kids who can't pass Integrated Math 1 (ninth grade) into...

Some students were learning more math, before the pandemic, while most were learning less, writes Mike Goldstein. He believes changes in...

Alex Small, who teaches physics at Cal Poly Pomona, keeps seeing students who passed calculus in high school, but aren't prepared for...

"The pandemic was a wrecking ball for U.S. public education," concludes the Center for Reinventing Public Education in The State of the...

Mixing wishful thinking with actual teaching is failing children, writes Greg Ashman, a school principal in Australia, on Filling the...

California's community colleges will be ordered to stop offering no-credit remedial classes in nearly all cases, if Gov. Gavin Newsom...

Math scores for Black nine-year-olds dropped by 13 points compared to 2020, representing a year's worth of learning, reports the...

The pandemic -- and the response to the pandemic -- was a disaster for students. We knew that, but now we really know that. Reading and...

In the ten years before the pandemic, high achievers did better in math and reading while everyone else slid, writes Fordham's Michael...

Students fell behind in reading and math when schools closed, and they're not likely to catch up if teachers don't assign challenging...

Teacher shortages are worse than ever this year, reports Hannah Natanson in the Washington Post. "Pandemic-induced teacher exhaustion"...

If I wanted to prevent disadvantaged or "marginalized" students from doing well in school, succeeding in college, learning a career or...

K-2 teachers won't be switching to a new research-backed, phonics-based literacy curriculum this fall, reports Dana Goldstein in the New...

California's proposed math guidelines claim to promote equity by offering a data-science alternative to the traditional...

Are elementary teachers well prepared to teach math? Many elementary teachers aren’t confident about their math skills, and  transmit...

California’s proposed new math framework offers a “choose-your-own-adventure approach” that is “fundamentally flawed,” argue Jennifer...

We know a lot about how to teach students who have trouble learning math, writes researcher Tom Loveless. Why not use that? Photo:...

Georgia is making “financial literacy” a graduation requirement, reports Carmen Reinecke on CNBC.  It’s the 13th state to mandate...