Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To learn the geometric concept of transformations this year, Crystal Watson’s eighth-graders drew up blueprints of apartments. As ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most Americans report they don't know enough math to make routine financial decisions. Antenna/fStop via Getty Images Math ...

Math education outcomes in the United States have been unequal for decades. Learners in the top 10% socioeconomically tend to be about four grade levels ahead of learners in the bottom 10%—a statistic ...

The so-called math equity movement is a scam. That’s what’s starting to come to light after a series of reports about its leaders in California revealed that the math equity movement is based on ...

America’s students should be worried about academics while in school, not politics, Virginia mother of five Carrie Lukas argued Tuesday on "The Story with Martha MacCallum" in reaction to the state's ...

Too many potential STEM students, especially Latino and Black students, are being filtered out of opportunities because of tracking and placement practices. Too many students of all races are being ...

State education bureaucrats are simply wrong when they introduce principles of equity in math curriculums -- shifting resources to narrow the gap between high-performing and low-performing students.

A Stanford math professor issued a stark warning Thursday on California's new math curriculum, arguing the push for "equity" could backfire academically as students continue to reel from post-pandemic ...

“Equality” is so '60s. Insufficient — and indeed, wrong — by the new calculus of “equity.” Equality of opportunity has failed to produce equal outcomes. The only possible explanation is ... systemic ...

Kendall Tietz is an investigative reporter at Defending Education. Georgia’s Department of Education held math equity summits in 2019 and 2020 that instructed state educators to stop grouping students ...

The recommendation in California’s proposed new framework for mathematics to develop new pathways for 11th- and 12th-grade students could result in reducing college and career options in STEM fields ...

Pursuing equity for historically disadvantaged groups should not come at the cost of denying others the right to achieve. Yet in practice the drive for equity is having a leveling effect – not just ...