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Is it time to kill calculus?
Math curricula are designed to shepherd students toward calculus. Some mathematicians think this path is outdated
09/26/2020 18:00 UTC
Breaking: Girls are good at math!
So long as they live in a country with little sexual inequality, says a new study.
06/03/2009 00:20 UTC
Hooked on tutoring
After-school programs bleed Mom and Dad while dissing Junior's teachers.
02/29/2000 22:00 UTC
Kevin McCarthy quietly gets away with holding Republicans to a lower standard than Donald Trump
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar will not face punishment for attending a white nationalist conference
03/16/2022 15:27 UTC
Tenure is not the problem: Debunking education reform myths -- and providing a real path forward
There are ways to fix public schools, but too many "reformers" are blinded by ideology. Let's listen to a teacher
07/14/2014 16:30 UTC
Building a hate for learning
Is homework bad for kids? Author Nancy Kalish tells Salon why she believes it inhibits learning, strains familes and stunts social development.
09/05/2006 15:12 UTC
School-readiness boosters for kids with learning and attention issues
Many aspects of school can be tricky for kids with special needs, but these tools can help
09/11/2017 01:00 UTC
5 apps to boost math skills over the summer
Apps that make a game out of learning will fit right into your kid's summer schedule
08/13/2017 02:00 UTC
Experts say kids still have way too much homework
Children need unstructured play time, experts say — and over-assigning homework is disrupting that
12/09/2019 00:30 UTC
In your face, Larry Summers
Stanford marks the first anniversary of the Harvard president's sexist speech by holding a conference on women in math.
02/09/2006 03:08 UTC
Do music lessons really make children smarter?
A recent analysis found that most research mischaracterizes the relationship between music and skills enhancement.
11/09/2019 17:59 UTC
A former math teacher explains why some students are "good" at math, and others lag behind
With math scores on the decline, a professor explains that math isn't a natural skill, but a learned one
11/22/2022 12:15 UTC
Disparities in advanced math and science skills begin by kindergarten
Socioeconomic status greatly affects math scores, and this disparity starts in the first years of schooling
11/25/2022 02:00 UTC
The rise — and possible fall — of the graphing calculator
Should children use graphing calculators? Studies show positive outcomes on learning
06/16/2017 00:27 UTC
Russian students dominate at the computer programming olympics — and American computer science students are unsurprised
“We don’t care enough about teaching computer science": American programming students on why our STEM ed lags
06/18/2017 21:30 UTC