The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ longstanding poor performance in the subject, a new study finds. The Center on ...

Teachers at Flushing High School claim the school’s grading system is forcing them to pass students who are actually failing their math classes. According to three Flushing High School teachers who ...

Students in Kristen Gonsoir’s classroom at Groton Area High School in Groton, S.D., spend a lot of time solving equations together. Early this school year, they passed almost an entire period working ...

Walk into many school district offices today, and you’re likely to hear a troubling narrative: They don’t have enough effective math teachers to support their students. New research from the ...

Teachers are accusing higher-ups at New York City’s Flushing High School are forcing them to pass students who are failing math classes. Educators at the school claim students are being given passing ...

Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to ...

Senate Administration Workshop on Admissions recently released a report on the math and English proficiency of the most recent cohort of admitted freshmen and the courses to which they were assigned.

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...