“A royal mess.” This is how California middle-school math teacher Barry Garelick describes math education today, especially under the Common Core national standards. In his book, Math Education in the ...

Concerned about what they see as a dearth of instructional materials aligned with the Common Core State Standards in math, several educators in Utah, with support from the state office of education, ...

An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...

My daughter brought home some crazy math homework this year. I thought South Carolina wasn’t using Common Core Math, but when I looked in her book, it had Common Core all over it. Will this way of ...

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 ...

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. Nank was appointed to represent the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help ...

Rather than math standards, we ought to look at math instruction Gov. Brian Kemp is making good on his pledge "to dismantle Common Core," holding a kickoff meeting Friday of a citizen review committee ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Fifth-grade math teacher Wei Zhang moves her hands in small circles with her palms up, coaxing her students to think ...