Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines that include recommending teachers stop quizzing ...

New Mexico students in grades three to eight have seen a 10 percentage point jump in reading proficiency since 2022, the state Public Education Department announced Tuesday, citing new data from the ...

Preschoolers’ screen time predicted later reading and math scores in a Canadian study, linking early digital habits to school ...

Pittsfield Public Schools showed moderate progress in this year’s state accountability scores, with some schools earning ...

Early childhood educators need more training in how to teach math. Even more important is helping families integrate simple ...

Our math and reading scores have been declining for a decade. The “Southern Surge” should be a wake-up call. Emily Scherer has been teaching fifth-grade English in Newport, Vermont, for nearly a ...

Still there are limits to how much the state can cut. Under federal law, students must be tested in English, math and science at least once during high school. And students’ scores on the state tests, ...

The Detroit Tigers promise they won’t panic. Just as they promised they weren’t panicking Thursday, Sept. 18, at Comerica Park when the Cleveland Guardians finished off a sweep, knocked out their ace ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...