Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams agreed Wednesday to relax accountability rules for elementary and middle schools this year, following the rollout of tougher math standards. Parents and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 19—Testing data shows students locally and throughout the state struggle even more with math proficiency than reading, yet ...

Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...

Hundreds of University of California professors are urging the system to reinstate the SAT or ACT requirement for STEM majors ...

The traditional ways of teaching math have not been working, according to the San Diego Unified School District. Years ago, the district surveyed students and found that many of them couldn’t explain ...

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind an elementary school. One by one, they raced to a table, where they scribbled answers to ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...