2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (855+ words) Algebra 1 is considered the gateway to advanced math, leading to heated debates about course timing: Unprepared students shouldn’t take it too soon and risk failing, but higher-achieving students will miss out on high-level math courses if they delay. New research…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (758+ words) When immigrant students arrive in U.S. high schools with limited English proficiency, schools face a dual challenge: help them develop their language and academic content skills and do it in a short amount of time. Schools across the country have faced…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (229+ words) As they did with reading, states have begun to roll out a wave of policies to overhaul math education in recent years, making changes like new teacher education requirements and mandated early screenings and interventions in math. Now those changes…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1663+ words) For 20 high school football seasons, Mac Hardy’s phone rang every Friday afternoon before a home game. It was his boss, the chief of police in Hoover, Ala., asking the same question. “Are you ready for tonight?” Hardy was the school…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (943+ words) Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California. States are seeking extensive financial damages that could, in theory, total as much…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (641+ words) At the start of the last school year, Texas teacher Katy Alexander took an unconventional approach to bringing the spark back to her teaching: She made a high-stakes bet on the life of a lobster. Then in her third year…...