High school students enrolled in the International Baccalaureate's Diploma Programme are required to study mathematics as one of six subject groups and must take at least one math course. However, as ...

In raising math requirements in high school, have we created needless barriers to graduation? Do all kids need higher levels of math? That question is hotly debated even among teachers. And it ...

For the past seven summers, hundreds of students have been gathering at churches across the state of California to study algebra. The students are taking part in a unique program sponsored by ...

Developmental math poses one of the biggest and most immutable challenges in higher education. Interventions to improve student success rates such as corequisite designs, curriculum alignment with ...

Dan Ellis's school year started and ended with big surprises. In the fall, another Lake Zurich High School teacher who specialized in advanced math left the district. Suddenly, Ellis had to take on ...

October 30, 2025 - Miliani Rodriguez attends Coachella Valley High School, where the AC often breaks in over 100-degree heat and when it rains, the ceilings leak. Here’s some news from California’s ...

“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is ...

Key Points ・UC San Diego’s own faculty report shows a thirtyfold jump since 2020 in freshmen arriving with math skills below the middle-school level, raising concerns about admissions practices and ...

Achievement gaps between student groups have worsened in the wake of the pandemic and its disruptions to learning. Credit: File/Grace Beahm Alford/Staff The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...

Tewodrose Nega is trying to find the length of a triangle’s side. “So, I’m guessing we put x over 22 and then we put one-fifth over the other side,” he said, hovering over a piece of paper, madly ...