Elementary school teachers in this country, by and large, are generalists. That means they’re required to teach everything—math, science, language arts, history, you name it, regardless of how ...

On May 27 at 7 p.m., Spokane school administrators are scheduled to address the school board about proposed teaching materials for mathematics. I’m asking parents and teachers to go to the meeting and ...

Mark Schneider, the former chief of the U.S. Department of Education’s statistical office, lays bare the discrepancy between American high schoolers’ enrollment in tougher math classes, their alleged ...

According to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 21 states and the District of Columbia saw increases at the fourth-grade level, eight of these statistically significant.

In another "Freakonomics"- style study that turns conventional wisdom about public- versus private-school education on its head, education professors have found that public-school students outperform ...

National Mathematics Awareness Month, created by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, is hoping to help people understand the link between math and climate change. Many issues that relate to ...