Tracking, or grouping students according to their perceived ability, is a common feature in high school math. But a new study finds that it’s widespread as early as elementary and middle school, ...

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his ...

EdSource · The John Fensterwald forecast: What’s coming for California schools in 2026 The John Fensterwald forecast: What’s coming for California schools in 2026 January 8, 2026 - It's time for John ...

What happens when the systems in which we teach no longer work for the students we serve? Do we hunker down and just teach? Or do we speak up publicly about the structures that perpetually hold ...

A major association of math teachers has issued a call for rethinking math education in pre-K–12. Among the recommendations: to stop the practice of student and teacher tracking and to focus on ...

Years 7 and 8 students at Kaiapoi North School, equivalent to sixth and seventh grades in the U.S., work out math problems in chalk on their school’s playground. The school is in suburban Christchurch ...

Sixth graders in the math class taught by Marietta Gibb and Nicole Parasiliti at DeWitt Middle School in Ithaca work in small groups, allowing kids to practice different skills in the same classroom.

Imagine if schools used students’ foreign language proficiency to determine which math courses they could take. As ridiculous as that sounds, the opposite is a commonplace practice in U.S. high ...

The Corvallis School District has adopted a new way to teach math in schools, a shift some parents say has their children no longer feeling challenged or excited with the subject. The new math vision, ...