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

The Clay Center is back open after the holiday and they’re hitting the ground running with some winter fun for the kids.

Create a game, get people of all ages involved, and make a habit of reading. Here’s what literacy experts say works best.

A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the U.S. Their “math designer” stands at ...

My family has been longtime fans of the Museum of Math, meeting the team behind this hands-on museum long before it had a ...

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 ...

It’s the rare child who’ll choose an afternoon of math homework over a family vacation. That’s partly because of the negative way that we talk about and teach math, says Chris Emdin, a professor of ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...