North Carolina is overhauling its math standards, with major changes potentially coming to the courses students take in high school. The state Department of Public Instruction presented Thursday the ...

Education in the United States operates within a complex system. It is difficult to focus on any particular component without considering how it is influenced by and, in turn, influences other parts ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

The mission statement of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM or the Council), developed in 1995, centers on standards: The mission of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics ...

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...

After its Back to Basics reading overhaul, New York is turning to math — but educators and researchers can't agree on ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less ...

California stands at a pivotal moment in math education. The State Board of Education has adopted a new mathematics framework for kindergarten through grade twelve that emphasizes equity, engagement, ...

One of the joys of being an educator is embracing all the differences every student brings to the classroom, while teaching them to celebrate those unique traits in themselves and each other. Yet, ...

Bailey Heugly, right, records the length a ruler dropped to recreate an experiment on reaction time (how long it takes to respond to a stimulus) during a data science class at Lehi High School in ...