The nation's students are getting better at math, but their reading performance is mixed, with slight progress in grade four and a slip backward in grade eight. The 2005 scores come from the National ...

For many families, reading is as much a part of summer as cookouts and camp. But as the weather warms, math is often banished along with mittens and sweaters. And that’s a problem. Studies of “summer ...

Ah, math. It’s why I became an English major. But now math is spinning back around and haunting me in the form of my fifth grader. Last night, I found myself dealing with how to multiply fractions as ...

The shift to Common Core is still rolling in at most high schools, with teens caught midstride in the traditional algebra-geometry path allowed to finish their journey, while incoming classes start ...