(TNS) — As Alabama ramps up efforts to build and add to its workforce, officials have renewed a focus on recruiting math and science teachers. But for one rural superintendent, something was always ...
(The Conversation) – When Frances E. Anderson saw the latest math scores for America’s fourth- and eighth-graders, she was hardly surprised that they had dropped. Until recently – including the period ...
On a Wednesday morning in May, a dozen students streamed into their geometry class at the Cindy Avitia High School. But instead of looking toward the blackboard, the 10th-graders opened up their ...
Malinda Evans spends about an hour and a half each day teaching mathematics to her 5th graders at Navajo Elementary School in the working-class South Valley neighborhood of Albuquerque, N.M. Whether ...
In the immortal words of Cady Heron, protagonist of cult-classic phenomenon 'Mean Girls,' math is beautiful because “it’s the ...
When Caroline Farkas’14 transitioned from classroom teaching to entrepreneurship, it wasn’t because she planned to start a business — it was because she saw a need. “Everything I found was either too ...
After a year of distance learning, the range of skill levels in math class is very wide, with some students still learning concepts from several grades behind. That means teachers have to get creative ...
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 ...