Includes updates and/or revisions. New research shows a lack of language skills can hamstring a student’s ability to understand basic concepts in mathematics. A series of studies led by Susan ...

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

For young English-language learners, language skills can be a barrier not just to reading but math as well. Educators and researchers working in two school districts here hope that helping students ...

A study of deaf people in Nicaragua offers fascinating insights into the link between language acquisition and the understanding of numbers. The findings are based on field work conducted by Elizabeth ...

EdSource · Trump's cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard Boosting the language development of students whose first language is not English is critical if ...

If math or linguistics came easily to you, school was probably a far more enjoyable experience for you than others. After all, these two types of intelligence are the primary focus of our educational ...

West Virginia University’s tagline is “Mountaineers go first.” In 2016, it became the state’s only "R-I" university—a prestigious label reserved for those with “very high research activity” in the ...

A recent article in The Cut that described the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses anxiety that the FX/Hulu series Fleishman is in Trouble is inducing in a certain milieu of upper-middle-class parents let ...

We often take for granted our ability to interact with others in our own language. But significant barriers to communicating in sign language are depriving many deaf people of enjoying even these ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...