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

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

The 74 reports that kids who were infants during COVID-19 lag in reading and math, showing slow recovery and increased ...

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

Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education.

San Diego-area Assemblymember Akilah Weber Pierson wants to assign California educators some new homework: screening kids for ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

San Andreas – The 45th Annual Math Mini Bowl brought together 75 students from six schools across Calaveras County on April ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

M indy Bernhardt teaches criminal justice to undergraduates at Kennesaw State University. In recent years she has found herself grading more easily and expecting less from her students. The reason?

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

The academic effects of the pandemic weren’t just limited to school-age children. Kids who were babies and toddlers in the early years of COVID, currently in 1st and 2nd grades, are now struggling too ...