A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

In January the American Council on Education (ACE), which administers the General Education Development (GED) tests, launched a new version of the test. This Series, 2002, was released in January to ...

The average test scores for U.S. 13-year-olds have dipped in reading and dropped sharply in math since 2020, according to new data from National Assessment of Educational Progress. The average scores, ...

Mathematics is often thought of as a subject that a student either understands or doesn't, with little in between. In reality, mathematics encompasses a wide variety of skills and concepts. Although ...

When Michael Parker can bear the pain, he looks back. Through the shadows of memory, the 39-year-old sees himself as the bully who would hide his embarrassment at not being able to read with clenched ...

NEWPORT — Benny Nettles is principal of the Arkansas Correctional School at Grimes Unit, a men’s prison facility of the Arkansas Department of Correction in Newport. “We have inmates who tell us, ‘No ...

Of five major content areas covered in math classes — numbers and operations, measurement, geometry, data and statistics, and algebra and functions — teachers are putting a bigger emphasis ...

In December the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) will announce the latest results from the tests it administers every three years to hundreds of thousands of 15-year-olds around the ...