In a Massachusetts school district, by 2021, after years of decline on the state test, only 12 percent of middle schoolers ...

South Dakota’s education board approved revised math standards to replace Common Core-based language, even as educators ...

Josh Newman, Gus Mattamal, Nichelle Henderson and Richard Barrera detailed how they would approach the job of superintendent of public instruction. Six other candidates didn’t attend.

Next week, Sara Perlstein will defend her Ph.D. on risk talk: the everyday conversations we have about risks with people close to us. From eating sushi to climbing or smoking, these informal talks ...

I remember watching my 3-year-old niece, Avi, try to organize her toy cars. She wasn't counting them yet, but she would say, “This one goes near the red one,” and “I want more cars here!” At the time, ...

WORKING OUT how to most efficiently pack a crate full of oranges may seem like a juvenile pursuit for professional mathematicians. And yet the sphere-packing problem, as this pastime is properly known ...

North Carolina lawmakers are interested in funding more teacher leadership roles, improving math skills among young students and continuing to monitor the impacts of stricter cellphone policies on ...

This story about math standards was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and ...

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PennLive will host a roundtable on education in Harrisburg that will be streamed live to our social media pages at noon Tuesday, March 17. PennLive’s Outreach and Opinion Editor Joyce M. Davis will ...

Sanderson, creator of 3Blue1Brown, entertained and educated a capacity crowd on the beauty and utility of higher-dimensional spheres. The explosive growth of artificial intelligence platforms like ...