A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

My second grader can run through long, complicated equations in his head, and I can barely wrap my mind around the new way they are teaching him to do it. I do, however, have basic math skills, and I ...

There’s yet more evidence that students have lost significant ground following the wobbly shift to pandemic-era remote classes that stretched for months: New data show the nation’s 13-year-olds are ...

The release of scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showing that American students lost historic ground in basic math and literacy skills during the pandemic has generated three ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) keeps upending our ideas about future skill requisites in interesting ways. On one level, AI requires a deep understanding of underlying technology, data science, and ...