Stephanie Trueblood has worked in the Urbana School District's bilingual program for nine years, first at Dr. Preston Williams Elementary School, and now at Yankee Ridge Multilingual Elementary School ...

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games ...

Schools operate on a factory model invented when we actually needed factory workers. In any given classroom, there were twenty-odd kids with one teacher giving everyone the same lesson at the same ...

The “Count, Play, Explore” initiative, led by the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, is working to ignite a love of learning math, science, and computer science for children from ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

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Across the country this fall, millions of college students are walking into math classrooms worried about their future — perhaps with good reason. For decades, mathematics — particularly college ...

Five years after the Covid pandemic closed schools and pushed students into a year of distance learning, California test scores show that — despite increases — students are still struggling with ...

The first major moment in a child’s schooling — what many educators call the "make-or-break" year for literacy — is third grade. By the end of third grade, students are expected to transition from ...

The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...

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 ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...