Some continue to argue it’s all about teachers’ pay, and that may be part of it. But our nation’s leading education economist ...

In India, many kids who work in retail markets have good math skills ... However, given the same division and subtraction problems, but with pencil and paper, 59% of nonmarket kids got them ...

The answer lies in the ineffective math instruction they are receiving. "We’re going to draw a picture every time we’re given 10 problems ... basic skills of addition, subtraction ...

There’s a math problem in Washington state ... and West Virginia showed increases in both math and reading scores. In addition to Washington, states where scores continued to decline in both ...