As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

I remember the day in ninth grade algebra when I asked my math teacher the question most students ask: When would I ever use y=mx+b in my “real life?” He did not provide a compelling answer. Like many ...

SEATTLE – Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform — and more rigorous — standards Wednesday as draft new national guidelines were released. Supporters of the ...

This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. Indiana students’ English language arts scores have remained essentially unchanged for five straight years despite major state investments in ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. If grades are telling the story, math classes at the University are more difficult ...

Annual State of Public Education Report, or ASPER, shows that academic recovery for Guam Department of Education students is uneven, with strong improvement in high school English, but ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indiana Department of Education on Wednesday morning released the 2025 ILEARN results, showing math proficiency has increased across all grade levels, while English/language ...

As mathematics has been developed to solve problems faced by our cultures, many words that are being used in mathematics have been borrowed from our spoken languages. Some words have been specifically ...

Math scores for New York City students took a nosedive during the pandemic — with only 38% of kids in grades 3-8 being proficient in the subject last school year, according to results of statewide ...