We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior concepts. Likewise, math standards in each grade presume that ...

Efforts to use the tech to customize lessons to students' individual interest demonstrate its potential—and the shortcomings.

On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the basis that the state had illegally used race as ...

Nearly 15 years ago, I argued for putting laptop computers or tablets in the hands of every reading-age public school student ...

This story was produced in partnership with Open Campus, a nonprofit news organization that partners with local newsrooms to deliver expert coverage of higher education. Alyssa Pfeifer always ...

Exposure therapy to the bash shell brought me to the tipping point, and I jumped ship to the Macintosh side of the house. It ...

Algebra 1 in eighth grade is a gateway to higher level math, yet 1 in 4 schools in New York state don’t offer it, a new ...

When Malcolm Jack tried to interview Angine de Poitrine for Big Issue, the knockback he received was as surreal as their ...

If you wrote a movie script about a guy crashing on his sister’s couch, taking online math classes, and suddenly getting a ...