New York is telling teachers to adopt trendy math ideas that failed in California.

As teachers try to get students to "sit down, focus and learn," researchers priorities are equity, justice and identity.

Twenty percent of high school graduates have trouble reading anything more complex than a restaurant menu.

Should New York City schools phase out classes for gifted elementary students?

At a well-respected graduate school of education, a former engineer learned about equity, culture and identity, but very little about how to teach math.

"De-laning" -- dropping honors classes at Silicon Valley high schools -- is "an assault on excellence," tweets liberal Democratic congressman in California.

Seattle is closing special schools for advanced students -- and losing students to private schools.

"Differentiating instruction" in a class with a wide range of performance levels doesn't work for high achievers -- or anyone else.

"Highly capable" students will lose advanced learning opportunities in Seattle Public Schools. To address "historical inequity," all...

Funding schools based on enrollment rather than attendance would be "more equitable," a superintendent told Rick Hess as they waited to...

"Equity" doesn't mean lowering standards in Union district near Tulsa, reports Hechinger's Neal Morton. Most students in accelerated math...

James Hankins, a Harvard history professor, posts an honest diversity statement addressed to "dear members of Harvard's Faceless...

Grades are up and tests are out. "More states could abandon high school exit exams as a graduation requirement, writes Libby Stanford in...

Black students can opt to take all-black classes -- with a black teachers -- in math and writing at Evanston Township High School near...

All high achievers should be placed in challenging math classes that prepare them to take algebra in eighth grade, write Brenda Berg and...

California progressives are eliminating advanced math in middle school in the name of equity. In Texas, equity means expanding access to...

I was willing to swear a solemn vow to not major in math or science in college, I told my teacher. All I asked was to get out of trig....

In Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity, Washington Post reporter Laura Meckler, a Shaker Heights native, writes...

Public schools spend billions on equity training, but have no idea what works, writes Katherine Reynolds Lewis in USA Today. "None of the...

The foolish idea that teaching kids less math will advance "equity" has spread from California, which has adopted watered-down guidelines...