We have yet to see any rebound in middle school math on the nation’s report card, where scores declined by 8 points from 2019 to 2022 and remained at that low point when kids last took NAEP in 2024.

Education leaders across New Jersey acknowledge that student achievement in mathematics is not where it needs to be. This longstanding failure – only exacerbated by the pandemic -- continues today, as ...

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

Arizona House Bill 2423 would copy other states using an opt-out vs opt-in system to get more underrepresented students into ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

Five states — Georgia, California, Tennessee, Utah and Oregon — have better aligned high school and college math courses in recent years, with measurable results, according to an equity-focused ...

Alabama’s 2022 law reshaped math instruction at the elementary level by providing money for all schools to hire math coaches ...

Students listen as Knightdale High School teacher Alex Johnson reviews examples of sequences during a math class on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in Knightdale, N.C. Kaitlin McKeown ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...