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 ...

The real opportunity for the field is not to choose sides but to build stronger bridges.

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. The math wars are raging again. In statehouses, school board meetings and academic journals, a familiar debate has resurfaced: ...

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 ...

How does a revolution start? Sometimes, it’s a simple question. For Sarah Powell, an associate professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin, the question was this math problem: ...

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 ...