Wyomissing High School senior Benjamin Chen made time during a busy senior year to become lead instructor at the “Girls Who Code” club held in the Reading Public Library, helping his students to ...

How can we fix the leaky pipeline that results in the field of mathematics being dominated by men? How are women in math treated in their workplace environments? What barriers exist that make it ...

Everyone agreed on the first step: Solve inside the parentheses, for 2+2=4. But after that, people split down two paths. Some multiplied first, while others divided, leading to different answers—1 and ...

Little more than 1 in 3 American 12 th graders read proficiently and fewer than 1 in 4 performed proficiently in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2019, marking widening gaps ...

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

New results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress offer more evidence that students fell significantly behind during school shutdowns. Across most states and demographic groups, 2022 ...

No state saw improvements in students’ math or reading scores between 2019 and 2022—and a majority of states saw declines, according to a new report released Monday. The test scores, which continue to ...

As California grapples with how much math students need to qualify for admission to its public universities, leaders of at least one school district say they have it figured out. Nearly six years ago, ...

Arizona students suffered math learning loss during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, but held steady in reading, new nationwide assessment results show. Arizona students performed at or ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. A group of California parents and preschool teachers are overcoming their fear of math ...