With school recently starting across many parts of the nation, it's time to think about how you plan to help your child -- or the other kids in your life -- succeed in math this year. But what about ...

Oklahoma City Board of Education Chairperson Paula Lewis, right, speaks during a hearing May 7 at the Clara Luper Center for Educational Services in Oklahoma City. The school board on Monday approved ...

I started teaching special education in 1970, prior to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, or PL 94-142. I welcomed the enactment of that legislation, because it forced school ...

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board took a first stab Tuesday at new five-year academic goals designed to prepare more students for success in school and adult life. Members spent almost five hours ...

A few years ago, third-grade teacher Laura Metrano considered herself strictly a language-arts person. “I am a writer and a reader,” she said during a break in her school day at Springhurst Elementary ...

After months of work and disappointing results on its last round of goals, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday voted 8-1 for literacy and math goals designed to shape the next six years of ...

Missouri became the latest state to adopt a new set of education benchmarks to replace the national Common Core standards, ditching the benchmarks Tuesday following conservative backlash. The State ...

Jul. 17—Sixth and seventh grade Albuquerque Public Schools students identified as underserved by a landmark court ruling are on par with the targets the district has set for them, according to a ...

Mackenzie Geiger, left, explains her thinking to Cameron Tormone on a math problem in Dana Snapp's class at Fuquay-Varina Elementary School. Students there have been using Common Core Math for the ...

Think about the so-called "story problems" you studied in algebra and other math classes. How many of them dealt with, say, two trains which, no matter how far they traveled, could never catch your ...

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Elementary students aren’t meeting the math “smart goals” the Regina Catholic School Division has set out, but Kelley Ehman is not worried. For the past two years, students have taken a year-end ...