Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...

If the recent news of a new mathematics and statistics curriculum for years 0–10 felt familiar, that's because it was. In term four last year, the Ministry of Education released a previous new math ...

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...

As New Mexico takes steps to do for math education what it has done for reading, Santa Fe Public Schools is taking a leap. The district is an early adopter of the state’s push to remake math ...

How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...

Amid falling student scores and renewed debates about how the subject should be taught, math is in the spotlight once again. The pandemic, which affected student learning across the board, had ...