Sorenson attributes her students’ language and content growth to the school’s intensive training for teachers across the ...

Each time Xiuwen Wu greets a new class of preservice teachers studying math education at National Louis University in Wheeling, Ill., she asks them to take a survey. It asks about the future teachers’ ...

According to the most recent state report card, only 38.4% of Illinois students met the state’s standards for proficiency in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...

About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...

The new plan does not mandate a certain way of teaching math. Instead, it encourages schools to shift away from rote ...

When Eric Weber, professor and chair of mathematics at Iowa State University, talks about data science with future math ...

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

Kash Deaton said her calling to teach runs deep.