In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...
I enjoyed reading your recent discussion with Alex Baron, “How Much Autonomy Should Teachers Have Over Instructional Materials? ” In particular, I was struck by your skepticism about whether ...
The Northwest Lehigh School Board discussed the status of the Common Core math curriculum in its middle school. Based on the success of a high performance algebra class, another class was added to ...
America’s amazing technological achievements, such as SpaceX’s recent rescue of stranded astronauts, mask the death spiral of math learning in the U.S., which has reached an ignominious low with ...
Third grader Melina King demonstrates how she solved a math problem in front of her class at Fox Road Elementary School in North Raleigh on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. North Carolina is redesigning its ...
State education leaders want to change how math is taught in North Carolina’s public schools to get more students interested in the subject. The state Department of Public Instruction is working on a ...
It would place Golden State 6th graders years behind the rest of the world—and could eventually skew education in the rest of the U.S., too A bumpy road is ahead for California’s proposed new math ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — New teachers, new schedules, new curriculum. As students get back in the classroom, they may find some of the learning materials have changed. After more than a decade, Common ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released two examples that it says back up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they ...
(The Hill) — The Florida Department of Education (DOE) on Thursday posted four pages of examples from math textbooks that have been banned from classrooms citing “prohibited topics” such as ...
The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) has released examples of some math textbooks rejected by the state for the upcoming year. FDOE leaders rejected dozens of textbooks, calling them “publishers ...