BUFFALO, N.Y. — School districts across the Buffalo-Niagara area may just be starting to return, but schools already have their first report card — the nation’s report card by the National Center for ...

Education leaders across Pennsylvania readily acknowledge that student achievement in mathematics is not where it needs to be. This harsh reality, exacerbated by the pandemic, continues today as we ...

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Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...

Students at Mifflin Elementary won the Prodigy State Challenge for the month of March by completing math problems in a video game format.

We know that girls can do math, and be very good at it. But a new study published this week in PNAS shows that some girls in elementary school aren't learning just how to add one plus one—they are ...

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One school in Central New York saw proficiency levels on state math tests jump more than 20 percentage points during the 2024-2025 school year, according to state data. Proficiency in the Westmoreland ...

It is one of most widely accepted axioms in math education: Good teachers matter. But what are the qualities of an effective mathematics teacher? The answer, as a recent federal report suggests, ...

It's like that dream where you're in math class in your underwear, and the whole class starts laughing. For the math averse — those who hated math as a kid and avoided careers involving numbers — that ...