Getting early-childhood educators more comfortable with teaching math was the focus of a summer workshop held by the Erikson Institute in Chicago, Ill. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The ...

EdSource · How one bilingual educator’s childhood trauma fuels his fight for inclusion In its “State of the States” report on math instruction published last week, the National Council on Teacher ...

My fifth-grade twins have been at our Title I elementary school since Pre-K and loved it. It’s a small school with dedicated staff who go above and beyond to provide our global majority, ...

This story is part of a series from the Education Reporting Collaborative in partnership with AL.com. At the Erikson Institute, a child-development-focused graduate school in Chicago, this annual ...

Math education leaders have long said children should not be labeled "bad at math," even if they struggle mightily with the subject. Such a classification is racist, sexist, classist, inaccurate, ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

If good math policies are the ingredients, qualified math teachers are the chefs serving students an opportunity to compete ...

Just as any student can invent a dodgy excuse for a bad report card, the state Department of Education’s cheerleaders are full of explanations for recent mediocre SAT test scores: Bad math, maybe, Or ...

In recent years, research on the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields has proliferated. (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.) STEM jobs tend to be higher-paying ...