State lawmakers are focusing on education reform, with two bills aimed at improving math and reading skills nearing approval.

Several of the area’s smaller schools use multi-age classes. Ridgeway Community School has sections combining second and ...

Teaching may not have been Amy Cook’s first choice for a career path, but her background in working with kids likely made it inevitable. “Growing up, I was always babysitting and I enjoyed ...

Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational basement, but now they are showing blue states a ...

An early literacy bill includes several strategies designed to boost reading skills in K-3 students — including retention ...

Four simple strategies—beginning with an image, previewing vocabulary, omitting the numbers, and offering number sets—can have a big impact on learning.

Jefferson Elementary third graders raise trout from eggs and conduct dissections as part of a five-year science program with ...

Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair. Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But ...

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A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...

High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well. By Dana Goldstein ...

For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students “who live and breathe soccer” would be interested to learn how mathematical concepts ...