Enrolling students in high school math courses is a high-stakes endeavor with an outsize effect on students’ college opportunities and even on their entire careers. The pressure to reach Calculus by a ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Nationally, graduation rates have rebounded from their dips during the height of the pandemic. But high school math proficiency is much lower. That mismatch means schools are likely sending graduates ...

Middle school math teachers are all too familiar with a question—usually uttered with a groan—that students ask when they make an unsettling shift into more complex content: “When am I ever going to ...

A Roosevelt International Middle School student takes a math enrichment class by computer at home in 2020. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Unified School District) This story first appeared at The 74, a ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

The U.S. high school graduation rate is among the highest in years, with 86 percent of seniors attaining a diploma after four years of study. The rate should be a reason to crow. But it isn’t. The ...

The school’s Math and Science Academy held its research and technology showcase on Sunday.

The reading initiative will scale up to high school, and the math initiative will scale down to elementary school, the mayor ...

This video is no longer available. After students eagerly entered Amanda Blevins’ classroom at Mosaic Elementary on Thursday afternoon, she returned a graded assignment and then shifted their ...