For the next three years, every superintendent needs to focus on improving middle school math. Performance on California’s 2022 Smarter Balanced scores dropped 6.5% in math and 4% in English language ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson See more of our coverage in your ...

Middle school is often a time of change for students. New friends, new schools, and a time of physical growth during the sticky subject of puberty. It's also a critical period during another sticky ...

Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The UC system disbanded the decades-old standardized testing requirement in 2020, under a legal challenge from students who argued ...

The Hechinger Report covers inequality and innovation in education to show the public how education can be improved and why it matters. When I taught middle school math, some of my worst days as a ...

See which schools in Cy-Fair ISD had the highest passing rates for students on reading, math and social studies STAAR exams.

Siblings Selena and Adam Ge walked into Olney Hall ready to take on the MATHCOUNTS state championship. “I wasn’t really nervous,” says Selena Ge, a seventh-grade student from Jonas Clarke Middle ...

Sixth-grader Logan Le competed against students from 18 states at the convention.

Middle school math class probably isn’t on most people’s lists of favorite school memories. But that could be changing in one central Alabama school district thanks to the efforts of a corps of math ...

Two Tennessee school districts bucked the national trend of middle school math scores failing to recover from pandemic-era slides. Credit: Andrea Morales for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

Advancing your education is a wonderful way to boost your career, network with other teachers and bring new knowledge to the classroom. In this flexible program, teachers earn a M.S. in Natural ...