A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

Director, Innovations and Practice, at Zizi Afrique Foundation Virginia Ngindiru shows Usawa Agenda Executive Director Dr. Emmanuel Manyasa learning materials during Numeracy Stakeholders Forum hosted ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

A new report has found that SAT scores are plummeting, showing that many of high school students cannot even do middle school ...

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Established through the Compulsory Free Universal Basic Education Act of 2004, the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has the broad mandate to provide basic education for all all children in ...

In 2012, the government of Peru was highly committed to tackling the challenge of achieving more inclusive growth and reducing social gaps. Improving the country’s human capital base was considered ...

The Council for Basic Education shut its doors last month after nearly half a century—the victim, its leaders say, of a tight fund-raising environment for education groups. The 48-year-old advocacy ...

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing several months ago in June, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and Education ...

The department of basic education has dismissed claims circulating on social media that the Basic Education Employment Initiative (BEEI) will be extended into a so-called “phase 5″. The department ...