The unsuccessful drive to teach the metric system in schools presents a cautionary tale about teacher buy-in for common-core advocates, writes Jeanne Zaino.

A mural of a 30-meter-long blue whale covers the basketball court at Santa Barbara Charter School. (Courtesy photo) Santa Barbara Charter School has ...

Students are introduced to the metric system. Introduction to Chemistry continues with a discussion of the Metric System: length, mass, volume, time and temperature are defined, and students learn ...

Can the U.S. give up its old yardstick?Do you think the metric system would make it easier for American kids to learn science and math? Do you think our not converting is holding the U.S. back in ...

Disdain for the metric system is a peculiarly US American thing, alongside American football, chain restaurants, hot dog eating contests, more guns than people, and a car for every driver. My message ...

The international standards community has added two new prefixes for even bigger numbers than exa and zetta — meet ronna and quetta.

Upon learning he was a Frenchman, and a famous scientist at that, he was captured and taken prisoner. The metric system would have to wait.