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New York City is gearing up to change the way math is taught this school year amid rising concerns about students’ low math performance. The initiative, NYC Solves, will mandate the use of one ...

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Why foundations matter: Early mastery of place value, number bonds, and multiplication tables reduces cognitive load later, making advanced concepts like fractions and division easier to grasp.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...

During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in ...

In a bid to improve state test scores, New York City public schools have embarked on a major undertaking to standardize math instruction across its middle and high schools — but some teachers have ...

San Francisco Unified School District elementary- and middle-school students began the school year with a new math curriculum, and officials touting the pilot program’s successes say the districtwide ...

Mayor Adams and city Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos announced Monday the expansion of their signature literacy initiative to middle schools for the first time. By next school year, 102 middle ...

One of the differences between the United States and Korea is the way in which curriculum change is initiated and implemented. For example, the Korean national curriculum framework describes goals to ...