Throughout the pandemic, data from testing has shown that students are struggling in math, making less progress than they might have in other years. Teachers, too, have said that routines core to ...

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, March 27. I’m Teresa Watanabe and I cover higher education. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

High school math, and algebra, in particular, is in crisis. Although some students thrive on the pathway to calculus, most do not. Algebra I is the single most failed course in American high schools.

While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

A high school student is tutored in algebra. Tutors and teachers report that more students struggled in the course this academic year. Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images The ...

The average eighth grader is now three years below grade level in math. How can they do algebra if they’re struggling to divide fractions? Credit: Jill Brady/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty ...

I recently finished reading "The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions" by Andrew Hacker. I came on his writing through some opinion pieces he wrote, and I think there was a big piece in The Atlantic.