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Practice-based, iterative, and change-oriented research of compelling problems in middle school math education.

Critics including Simon Jenkins think higher maths serves no useful purpose. This is the result of an unimaginative curriculum

Education activists and parents say threats of sanctions from the U.S. Education Department won't deter them.

Half the community college students in the state are taking remedial courses, usually math. Here's what suburban educators have to say about that.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - In sterile, air-conditioned conference rooms across the state, educators will be gathering this summer to prepare for the new standards soon to be in place in most of the nation's kindergartens through high schools called Common Core. But the people at these meetings won't be primary- or secondary-school teachers. They'll be university …

Last year, a small, angry band of parents and teachers in the Lower Merion School District took on a big challenge: convincing their neighbors that the intensifying emphasis on high-stakes standardized tests was harming their children's education. - Kathy Boccella, Philadelphia Inquirer

Think about numbers as a language; we need to learn to be fluent in it.

Looking back on her junior year at Saint Agnes Academic High School in the College Point neighborhood of Queens, Viktoria Mertiri admits that trigonometry "was the death of me. I never understood it." But Mertiri scored a 70 on the New York Regents Examination, a state standardized test of core high school subjects. It was …

The number of students completing high school has reached historic peaks, yet other measures of academic readiness for college or jobs are much lower.

An ESSA provision that lets states use college-entrance exams to measure student achievement could spur a profound shift in high school testing.