The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ longstanding poor performance in the subject, a new study finds. The Center on ...

New York school districts will soon begin revamping math instruction under a new law aimed at improving test scores — but the ...

Debates over how to teach math echo the conflicts over reading instruction, and some issues are similar. But unlike math, reading—in its full sense—draws on everything a person has been able to learn.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Educators seeking to improve their schools’ math offerings should look critically at state and other recommendations to determine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The math wars are raging again. In statehouses, school board meetings and academic journals, a familiar debate has resurfaced: ...

I’ve had a lot of people tell me there’s been a reduction, however slight or gradual, in the level of bluster and acrimony emanating from various combatants in the so-called “math wars” in recent ...

American education is every bit as polarized, red and blue, as American politics. On the crimson, conservative end of the spectrum are those who adhere to the back-to-basics credo: Kids, practice ...

Educators seeking to improve their schools' math offerings should look critically at state and other recommendations to determine what works - and what doesn't - inside their own classrooms, according ...