The push to expand pre-kindergarten programs is on. Last school year, public pre-K programs received their biggest-ever boost ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Research consistently tells us that foundational math skills are strong predictors of later academic ...

Math has a terrible reputation. Many people are convinced that math is either boring or too difficult. Fortunately, young children aren’t jaded—yet! Math learning doesn’t start with numbers on a ...

As a former preschool teacher and now teacher trainer, I’m always reflecting on my time in the classroom and what the landscape of education looked like when I taught, versus, a few short years later, ...

Students who are behind in third grade rarely catch up. Texas lawmakers want to intervene earlier. At the Waco Central Library, Ellis Pittman, 5, looks for a book to take home on April 5, 2024. The ...

The Maryland State Board of Education has voted to change the way math is taught in the state. Under the plan approved by the board, math curricula in the state’s 24 public school systems would be ...

Paul Kihn, deputy mayor of education for the District, speaks at a press conference alongside DCPS Chancellor Lewis Ferebee.(WTOP/Scott Gelman) D.C. fourth graders made major strides in math on the ...

When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...

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SAGAMIHARA FAMILY HOUSING AREA, Japan — Young grocery shoppers, with worksheets and measuring tapes in hand, packed this base’s commissary Wednesday evening to apply their classroom knowledge to a ...