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Does Amboy Junior High School have a math problem? For a group of parents of seventh grade students, the answer equals yes. The Amboy School Board on Thursday night heard from a group of parents of ...

Statewide, about 33% of students tested at or above grade level expectations in language arts and 32% in math in 2025.

While most states have graduation rates between 80-95%, math proficiency is most often below 50%. (There’s a wide range in ...

Xavier Velasco is taking college-level math and physics courses at Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy while maintaining his ...

La Plata, Md. — Charles County Public Schools fourth- and fifth-grade students tested their math skills April 11, 2026, ...

One school in Central New York saw proficiency levels on state math tests jump more than 20 percentage points during the 2024 ...

Alabama is seeing one of the largest increases in fourth grade math scores in the country, as students across the state head into testing season.

Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...

Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...

A fifth-grade student in Ellanise Hines’ class works on calculating the volume of a prism. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...