Not surprisingly, jobs in AI are the fastest growing of any in the country, with a 59 percent increase in job postings between January 2024 and November 2024. Yet we continue to struggle with growing ...

Each day this week we are talking to local educators who are now educating students remotely. Today we are checking in with a local middle school teacher on what it looks like to teach math – ...

April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month—a time to celebrate teaching math, which can be, as experts say, a “hard sell.” I spoke with Sean Nank, a professor of teaching and learning at the ...

Mathematics permeates all aspects of everyday life, from genetic code to GPS satellites. However, traditional math education often fails to instill a love for mathematics and habits of mathematical ...

Mathematics education today is built around a singular metric: marks. For decades, this model has served as the backbone of academic success, teaching students that the number on their report card ...

Especially in light of the filmed police shootings of African Americans this year, more attention is being paid by educators toward culturally responsive teaching. It might be a bit more obvious about ...

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

There is no special “math gene” that naturally makes some people better at math than others. Credit: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...