Mathematics is a language. It is universal, structured and exact,” Vestal said. “Like any language, it has vocabulary, ...

After having held four public hearings, the South Dakota Board of Education Standards (BOES) has unanimously approved (May 4, ...

The key to improving math outcomes isn’t a new program — it’s transforming how teachers understand and teach the subject.

Crystal McMachen, a middle school math teacher in Rapid City, told board members she worried the standards were ...

The South Dakota Board of Education Standards on Monday adopted new curriculum standards for mathematics and health. The ...

Are you smarter than an Eighth Grader? Stacker uses real questions from a national eighth grade assessment test to find out.

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — New teachers, new schedules, new curriculum. As students get back in the classroom, they may find some of the learning materials have changed. After more than a decade, Common ...

AL.com’s Education Lab team is supported by individual donors and grants. Learn more about our work and sign up for our newsletter. Alabama Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, is backing a plan to improve ...

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...