For the next three years, every superintendent needs to focus on improving middle school math. Performance on California’s 2022 Smarter Balanced scores dropped 6.5% in math and 4% in English language ...

While many school districts have been fixated in recent years on helping young students rebuild flagging math skills, there’s also a growing awareness that math learning among middle and high ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

The Hechinger Report covers inequality and innovation in education to show the public how education can be improved and why it matters. When I taught middle school math, some of my worst days as a ...

Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...

Middle school is often a time of change for students. New friends, new schools, and a time of physical growth during the sticky subject of puberty. It's also a critical period during another sticky ...