After a long and frustrating homework session with his 2nd grade son one day last school year, Jeff Severt dashed off a letter to the teacher. “I have a bachelor of science degree in electrical ...

Concerned about what they see as a dearth of instructional materials aligned with the Common Core State Standards in math, several educators in Utah, with support from the state office of education, ...

EdSource · Los Angeles parents fight for and win intensive tutoring for kids hurt by Covid Nank was appointed to represent the United States as a mathematics assessment expert at the 2012 ...

The biggest news in math over the past several years has been Common Core standards. While there’s plenty for parents and teachers to learn about Common Core math, there are some elements of math ...

EdSource · School screen time is rising. California parents are asking where to draw the line Fifth-grade math teacher Wei Zhang moves her hands in small circles with her palms up, coaxing her ...

One of the few things that unites Americans across the political spectrum in this age of partisan polarization is disdain for modern math instruction. From the far left to the far right, you can find ...

Parenting is hard work in a million different ways, but if you would have told a pre-child me that one of those struggles would include third grade math, I'm pretty sure I would have laughed in your ...

An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...

American students are struggling with reading. And the country's education system hasn't found a way to make it better. In fact, fourth and eighth grade reading scores on the National Assessment of ...

AL.com’s Education Lab team is supported by individual donors and grants. Learn more about our work and sign up for our newsletter. Alabama Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, is backing a plan to improve ...