We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming ...

The University of California San Diego has reported a staggering 30-fold increase in the number of students unable to do ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them.

Each year, the Illinois State Board of Education releases an annual report card with data showing how students are doing in the basic subjects of reading, writing and math. And each year when those ...

Children’s mental health unsurprisingly plummeted when they were forced to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent ...

“Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below middle-school level increased nearly thirtyfold, reaching roughly one in eight members of the entering cohort,” they report, ...

Call it graduation inflation. The latest California School Dashboard, compiled by the state Board of Education, showed the graduation rate for all students rose to 87.8 percent in 2025, up 1 ...

Success at school is about more than just what takes place in the classroom. How kids spend their time after the bell rings ...

In Illinois, officials at the State Board of Education hope to close the gap through the development of a statewide, ...

To be sure, there are many reasons that American schools are failing to teach math: an aversion to standardized tests, powerful teachers unions, chronic absenteeism and grade inflation, to name a few.

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, ...