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The annual Elementary Mathematics Challenge Competition, co-sponsored by Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO), ...

Supporting adult literacy and language programs can be enormously beneficial to society, writes economist M. Ray Perryman.

Arizona students are struggling on state science tests. Some educators attribute that to statewide shortcomings in how math ...

Arizona students are struggling on state science tests. One teacher attributes that to statewide shortcomings in math ...

KNEC chairman says students will have gained enough arithmetic literacy by JSS level. Council says learners will be offered ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Bringing elementary students outside for math lessons provides a welcome change of pace and a chance for new activities.

Some 4th and 12th grade tests won't proceed as planned, following sweeping cuts to the U.S. Department of Education research ...

The former governor of Illinois, now a Florida education advocate, decries the Senate’s recent bill lowering school standards ...

Florida has a math problem. Fourth graders’ performance in the subject on the Nation’s Report Card has stagnated over the past decade. Eighth graders recently hit a 20-year low on the biannual test, ...

Under common A-F grading systems, teachers factor both academic achievement and noncognitive factors, such as extra credit ...