Get the Ed Chat newsletter: Enter your email for weekly updates about Alabama schools: For Briana Oliver, teaching math isn’t all about the numbers. It’s about relationships, too. “One student came in ...

Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...

Despite pleas from students and parents to hold off on changes to middle school math, the Troy schools board of education approved a new curriculum that takes younger students off an accelerated path ...

When gifted intervention specialist Amy Alexander prompts her Cherokee Elementary students to select an item from anywhere in the classroom, the kids spring to action. They search high and low, eager ...

Parents at Louisville’s Coal Creek Elementary are concerned about a decision to offer advanced math through Boulder Valley’s online school, Boulder Universal. Parents say issues include too much ...

Our country has realized the vital importance of STEM ­– science, technology, engineering and math ­– education to our continued success. The basis of STEM knowledge is math. It was thus jarring to ...

Accelerated learning is an approach that's been pioneered across Africa, including in Kenya, over the past decade to get out-of-school kids into education. It compresses the typical school curriculum ...

At the start of the school year, Nicole Guth, a 1st grade teacher in Sidney, Neb., had a student who could only count to 29. Kindergartners entering 1st grade in her state are expected to be able to ...

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to change and innovation is not lack of ideas, resources, or time, but simply the fear of failure. Recognizing this, many leaders have asked me: how can we learn to accept ...

February 19, 2026 - Arizona State University wants Cal Grants for its California-based students, but California officials say its not eligible. It is just as natural for young children to think ...

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