Another year, another nationwide education disaster laid out in the scores issued by the nation’s report card. Math scores are down, reading scores are down, every year worse than the last, as ...

Do the math, get the answer. That's how kids were told to master mathematics when Thomas McGowan was in middle school in the early 1960s. But he said the method rarely helped him understand the ...

Students are barely beginning to recover from a historic decline in math performance. Across every grade and region of the country, students in every racial, income, and disability group have ...

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