Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...

For almost a decade, a debate has raged over the best way to teach mathematics and science. Should teachers instruct students in the subjects’ facts and procedures and then give them the opportunity ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Educators think it’s important to teach science and social studies to ...

The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the sixth-grade level, according to new research. When asked to estimate the grade they’d be placed into for both math and ...

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were ...

(TNS) — Matthew Karabinos was hesitant to try ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence tool, when it first came out in 2022. The sixth-grade math teacher was concerned about what the technology ...

It’s a common refrain from elementary school to adulthood: “I’m bad at math.” It’s a hard subject for a lot of people, and it has a reputation for being—let’s face it—boring. Math isn’t taught in a ...

Jonathan is the Acting Director of the Center for Education Policy and Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Proponents of critical race theory are not ...

Chance Harrison and Jaylen Garibay, seniors at Rio Mesa High School, compare data and work on an analysis they collected on student stress levels. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The ...

Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since ...

Growing up on the set of the television series The Wonder Years meant actress Danica McKellar, 43, spent her school years in a nontraditional way. “I’d go back and forth between regular school and ...