Re “State’s ‘math wars’ are hurting Black, Latino students” (April 23): I was an algebra teacher into three decades and found one basic principle: If you don’t know basic arithmetic, i.e., how to add, ...

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy ...

Being bad at math has become an internet trend in recent years, with low test scores and poor comprehension being used as the punch line of many popular memes and TikToks. What isn’t funny is how ...

・UC San Diego’s own faculty report shows a thirtyfold jump since 2020 in freshmen arriving with math skills below the middle-school level, raising concerns about admissions practices and student ...

The United States is facing a twin crisis—one in education and the other in its labor market. The troubling decline in math ...

Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored. A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. His students had watched the ...

The US math crisis has continued to deepen since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Test scores have plummeted more dramatically since 2020, particularly for kids in 8th grade upwards. In fact, ...

WASHINGTON — Minority and low-income students at public schools in Texas are making progress in closing the achievement gap with their Anglo, higher-income peers — at least when it comes to ...

Americans are math challenged. We've been that way from the beginning. We weren't sure how many states were in the Louisiana Purchase, but we knew it was a bunch. Growing up, I always thought of ...

Math is a major obstacle for many students. Poor math skills exacerbate inequality in education. The good news? Educators and policymakers across the country are tracking these challenges and ...

It’s no secret that a lot of people dislike math. Whether it is calculating a tip on a restaurant bill, reading a retirement statement, or being called up to the board to work out a problem in school, ...

In a major victory for Seattle students, the district’s school board voted earlier this month to adopt a world-class elementary school math curriculum, Math in Focus. Replacing the failing Everyday ...