A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

California has taken a bold step to lead the nation by setting the highest expectations in the country for our eighth-grade students in mathematics. Earlier this month, the state Board of Education ...

Sacramento County Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the state Board of Education to postpone its plan to force all California eighth-graders to be tested in algebra. The state Board of Education ...

Apr. 19—Testing data shows students locally and throughout the state struggle even more with math proficiency than reading, yet unlike the Literacy Act, the Numeracy Act includes no provision for ...

The traditional ways of teaching math have not been working, according to the San Diego Unified School District. Years ago, the district surveyed students and found that many of them couldn’t explain ...

Test results show a tale of two school systems across the Lehigh Valley, with suburban districts Southern Lehigh and Parkland ranking in the top 10% statewide and the large urban districts of ...

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Standards of Learning mathematics tests will be different for Virginia elementary and middle school students this year. But this change means math tests will be shorter. The Virginia Department of ...

The traditional ways of teaching math have not been working, San Diego Unified officials say. Years ago the district surveyed students and found that many of them couldn’t explain what their answers ...