In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so. Early reading skills have been shown to have a profound ...

Two programs for teaching mathematics in the early grades—Math Expressions and Saxon Math—emerge as winners in early findings released last week from a large-scale federal experiment that pits four ...

A national science organization is recognizing three metro Atlanta groups for their efforts to grow Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math programs for students. The Society for Science awarded ...

Small studies of high-quality after-school programs sometimes show improvements in reading or math, but many after-school programs have been a disappointment because of poorly trained teachers, weak ...

More than 1 in 3 public school students now take Algebra 1 before high school. For those students to succeed, schools must adjust middle school programs to better match student readiness to class ...

A third grader in Kathy Neumann’s class in Howard County, Md., uses one-inch tiles to find the area of a rectangle. The district is embracing several practices to boost students’ math achievement ...

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It will be a summer full of "acceleration academies," tutoring, math instruction, and community college coursework for Massachusetts students under a $70 million grant plan rolled out by state ...

Pacers All-Star Pascal Siakam's PS43 Foundation is providing programs for Indiana Math & Sciences Academy, its 1st partnership with an Indiana school ...

In Brookline, at the corner of Beacon and Washington Street, shiny SUVs pull up to a nondescript yellow building. Kids hurry out of the cars, and teachers usher them through the building’s glass doors ...