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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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