Teachers: Weatherford trustees show 'guts' in new math, reading plan to raise scores, close gaps

Weatherford ISD Trustee Kindra Lucia liked the silent feedback she was getting Monday from teachers in the audience as the ...
Los Angeles Times

Math crisis began a decade ago and has only worsened, report says

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. American students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and ...
The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: How a debate over the science of math could reignite the math wars

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Sarah Powell, an ...
Education Week

Debates Over Math Teaching Are Heating Up. They Could Affect Classrooms

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...
Education Week

Mounting Evidence Shows National Reading Scores Stuck at Historic Lows

Students’ reading scores haven’t budged from pandemic-era lows, even as math achievement has crept up, according to new data released today from the testing group NWEA. The latest analysis of the ...
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Mastering the Basics: The Fundamentals of Statistics and Inference

Statistics is a branch of math that involves the collection, description, analysis, and inference of conclusions from quantitative data. But what is a statistic? Let’s find out. The word statistic is ...
The New York Times

Math Scores Dropped Globally, but the U.S. Still Trails Other Countries

In a global exam for 15-year-olds, only a handful of places, including Singapore, Japan and Australia, kept math performance high through the pandemic. By Sarah Mervosh The math performance of U.S.