April 2, 2026 - Julie Edwards' daughter brought home a Chromebook from school in second grade to work on math and reading. But soon she was watching Youtube videos. It is just as natural for young ...

The math crisis narrative is now familiar: On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, proficiency drops to just one in ...

Across the country, 4th and 8th graders are taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a range of subjects this month, but I’ll be paying particularly close attention to how middle ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...