On the heels of a troubling “report card ” on reading and math skills among American students, a global test of adult skills suggests older generations may echo those problems. The 2017 results of the ...

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Legislators are considering a bill that would establish the Mississippi Math Act and require implementing interventions similar to those that led to the state’s celebrated gains in reading. Wake up ...

Math literacy is increasingly recognized as a fundamental civil right for securing a living wage and participating fully in modern society. This belief was strongly advocated by civil rights activist ...

Buoyed by their successful strategies for early literacy, California legislators and advocacy groups are calling for a parallel approach to math. This week, they proposed that all school districts be ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Students at Burbank Elementary School in Logan Heights have achieved remarkable gains in English reading and math test scores, earning recognition from California State ...

AL.com’s Education Lab team is supported by individual donors and grants. Learn more about our work and sign up for our newsletter. Alabama Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, is backing a plan to improve ...

The Nation’s Report Card makes one thing painfully clear: American kids are failing in math, and the education system has been failing them for decades. New research from National Center for Education ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prisms VR, a learning platform pioneering a new paradigm for math education, raised $12.5 million in a Series A round from Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate math ...

As an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s, Bob Moses traveled to the most dangerous parts of Mississippi to help African Americans end segregation and secure ...

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic requires some serious math literacy. There’s a daily dose of statistics on the number of new cases, and constant talk of “flattening the curve” of infections. But ...