As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

In the education world over the past few years, a lot of attention has been paid to phonics and balanced literacy and the ways in which reading instruction practices often don’t align with what we ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...

Join the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) for a colloquium with Caroline Ebby, senior lecturer in University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, ...

Bobson Wong (@bobsonwong) has taught high school math in New York City public schools since 2005. He is a three-time recipient of the Math for America Master Teacher fellowship, a recipient of the New ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh Public Schools has hired a consultant to teach a new method of instructing kids. No matter how math is taught, one plus one equals two. But Pittsburgh Public Schools is ...

On March 30, 2020, I entered a whole new world of teaching my kindergarten class. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators across the world have had to completely change the way we work. It took a week ...

Math improvement rarely stalls because districts aren’t taking action. More often, it stalls because well-intentioned ...

American students are struggling in math. Coming out of the pandemic, many children in elementary and middle school have fallen behind grade-level benchmarks. In high school, teenagers aren’t sure ...

North Carolina Superintendent Catherine Truitt told state lawmakers Monday she wants to make big changes to how students are taught math. Truitt told the House Select Committee on Education Reform ...