Some leaders reduce our math crisis to two words: test scores. For decades, hopes of progress were dashed by flat to declining scores. Full-bore panic about fading global competitiveness. Urgent calls ...

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How ambitious should you be? Folk wisdom offers conflicting advice: "Shoot for the moon," but also, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." A new study by researchers at the University of ...

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Mathematics provides tools for explanation and analysis in the physical, engineering, business and social sciences. These tools can help in areas as diverse as planning and evaluating market research, ...

The favorable impact of the legislative reforms enacted in Florida is now benefiting consumers and making headlines. The reforms of 2022 began ...

Did you know that only about 1 in 3 American fourth-graders are proficient in reading? By fourth grade, if children can't read at grade level, they're unlikely to ever catch up. In math the average ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American cartoonist Crockett Johnson created a series of paintings on mathematical subjects. They’re based on theorems, laws, and mathematical figures, but ...

The report used state and national assessment data for 35 million students enrolled in grades 3-8 nationwide to chart how ...

Dinner used to mean a reservation. Now it means a group text, an assigned course and someone who shows up with a bottle ...

Twenty-six West Virginia high school seniors have been selected as the state’s seventh cohort of Underwood-Smith Teaching Scholars, a competitive scholarship program aimed at preparing future educator ...