Middle school is often a time of change for students. New friends, new schools, and a time of physical growth during the sticky subject of puberty. It's also a critical period during another sticky ...
Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior concepts. Likewise, math standards in each grade presume that ...
An EdWeek Research Center survey finds that educators see older students' lack of progress in the subject as an acute problem ...
How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation has received a $25,000 grant from Impact100 Sonoma to help Altimira Middle School students ...
In a Massachusetts school district, by 2021, after years of decline on the state test, only 12 percent of middle schoolers ...
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 ...
Two Tennessee school districts bucked the national trend of middle school math scores failing to recover from pandemic-era slides. Credit: Andrea Morales for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...