Faced with thousands of juniors who have yet to pass the WASL math test a little more than a year from their graduation, Gov. Chris Gregoire and education leaders last week reached a compromise. If ...

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BETHEL - Heather Gebert is honest about her abilities. "I'm really bad at math," says the 17-year-old Bethel High School senior. But Gebert plans to attend college next year at Western Connecticut ...

It is early on a chilly Saturday morning at the Russian School of Mathematicsin Newton, Mass., but 10-year-old Sebastien Sobeih does not seem to mind. He is already deeply engrossed in three hours of ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...