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The Seattle School Board is poised to make its most important academic decision in decades: whether to remain on the reform math bandwagon. We urge members to look beneath the glittery wrapping of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State Superintendent Catherine Truitt wants elementary and middle schools to provide students with at least 60 minutes a day of ...

The changes are being driven by students’ lagging performance on international tests and mathematicians’ warnings that more than a decade of so-called reform math — critics call it fuzzy math — has ...

After years of reports detailing how California’s public schools badly lagged those in poor Southern states in teaching kids how to read — especially Mississippi, the poorest state in the nation — the ...

Kenny Felder, a math teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, explains repeating decimals to calculus students in February 2019. Julia Wall News & Observer file photo State education leaders want to ...

The Common Core math standards have poured gasoline on the math “reform” fire that has raged for the past 20-plus years. This is particularly true since the national dialogue about Common Core has ...

Why aren’t American students proficient in mathematics? Teens graduate from high school unprepared for college math and with a strong antipathy to the subject. Most graduates require extensive ...

When Monica Clemans-Remmen taught second grade at Cedar Valley Community School, parents called to question the way she taught math. “I don’t think I (teach) any math like I was taught,” she said.

State Superintendent Catherine Truitt wants elementary and middle schools to provide students with at least 60 minutes a day of math instruction to boost their math skills. Truitt presented to a state ...