The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ ...

Barbara Oakley, an engineering professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., says the key to mathematics expertise is practice, not conceptual understanding as some common-core proponents would ...

When the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress scores were released at the beginning of this year, Alabama — ...

Last week I talked about the nature of short-term, or working memory and how it helps it build expertise. This week, I want to talk a bit more about how that short-term memory builds long-term memory, ...

Since the 1970s, the NAEP Long-Term Trend Assessment (LTT) has tracked student academic performance, and it was last administered just before the pandemic. Those pre-pandemic results can be compared ...

The report declares that a truce is necessary in the so-called math wars. Traditionalists emphasize math facts and direct instruction of procedures, while progressives focus on conceptual ...

Last week I talked about the nature of short-term, or working memory and how it helps it build expertise. This week, I want to talk a bit more about how that short-term memory builds long-term memory, ...

Difficulties in learning statistics primarily at the college-level led to a reform movement in statistics education in the early 1990s. Although much work has been done, effective learning designs ...

Journal of Science Education and Technology, Vol. 14, No. 5/6 (Dec., 2005), pp. 459-470 (12 pages) This study describes high school students' conceptual development of the basic astronomical phenomena ...

A new report suggests that improving math scores is complex but fixable with the right investments and support.