Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

A decade or so ago, reading instruction underwent a public reassessment. Whole language approaches had emphasized immersion in texts and contextual, “cue"-based guessing strategies. The goals were ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

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 ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — If your child's math homework has you scratching your head confused, you're not alone. Parents who grew up in the '80s, and '90s learned basic formulas, such as long division to solve ...

Visit a class in Val Verde Unified where teachers are helping students find new ways to learn math. Visit a class in Val Verde Unified where teachers are helping students find new ways to learn math.

Easy access to AI-powered answers during important math assessments is creating significant learning loss, according to a new ...

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

A few years after Louisiana pushed schools to adopt a new, systemic approach to reading instruction, education officials want to revamp the way students learn math. Last month, the state emerged as an ...