College kids’ math skills worse than ever, California finds — blame our pass-the-buck public schools

America has plenty of talented people — but a UC San Diego study finds our schools are failing to educate them. And everyone ...

Students at California University Without 8th Grade Math Skills Skyrockets

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.
Business Wire

STEMscopes Math for Grades K-8 and Algebra I Receives Top Score for Alignment to Common Core State Standards from Learning List

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STEMscopes Math for grades K-8 and Algebra I from Accelerate Learning has received the highest score for alignment to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) from Learning ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune

5 habits to improve your math grades

(StatePoint) Struggling with math class? If so, here are five habits you can adopt to ace the subject: 1. Meet with your teacher: If you’re feeling a bit lost during a lesson or you receive a grade on ...
The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: It’s easier and easier to get an A in math

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Amid the growing ...
The State Journal-Register

Illinois eighth grade students are ahead of the curve nationwide in reading, math

NAEP, also known as the nation's report card, released results last week. Illinois eighth grade students outperformed national averages in reading, math. Fourth grade, eighth grade, and the 12th grade ...
Los Angeles Times

Newport-Mesa signs off on new math curriculum for sixth through eighth grades

Newport-Mesa Unified School District trustees unanimously signed off Tuesday on new math materials for grades six through eight, replacing Swun Math for sixth-graders. Teachers and parents have long ...

NYC & L.A. schools get it right on math

On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, ...
Los Angeles Times

4th, 8th Grades Still Come Up Short in Math

Despite a decade of progress in mathematics, only about one in four students in the fourth and eighth grades demonstrates a solid grasp of math topics normally taught in those grades, new data ...
Education Week

Fordham Math Grades Vs. NAEP Math Achievement

Everybody knows that I can barely count, much less do statistical regressions, but I do know some folks who are good at that stuff. Having looked at that recent Fordham report on state achievement ...
New York Post

Students being placed into advanced math classes based off standardized test scores, not grades

DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...
The Lowell Sun

Math grades at Hudson, Pelham high schools: ‘Needs improvement’

HUDSON, N.H. — When the state handed out the math scores this week, Alvirne High and Pelham High had little to celebrate. The grade: “in need of improvement.” The Hudson and Pelham schools fell short ...