Female elementary school teachers’ comfort with mathematics has an outsize effect on the girls they teach, according to new research. Girls taught by a female teacher got a learning boost if ...

Accelerated Math, a software tool for middle school math used in an estimated 30,000 schools nationwide, has been found to have "no discernable effect" on student achievement by federal officials ...

Spanish-language background was more strongly related to reading than to math achievement deficits. The language effect was also much stronger for pre-existing achievement levels than for learning ...