Sports provide an engaging way of exploring a host of mathematical concepts. Any hard-core baseball fan knows that the game can’t truly be appreciated without an understanding of some essential ...

SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing Enrolling students in high school math courses is a high-stakes endeavor with an outsize effect on students’ college ...

Eighth grade algebra teacher Rick Riccio helps students with a problem at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga/The Hechinger Report BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic ...

Cambridge Public Schools will phase Algebra 1 back into eighth grade math courses over the next few years. The district has faced a wave of pushback from parents and community leaders over the ...

Want to help your eighth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand rational and irrational numbers. Know that a rational number can be ...

Eighth grade test scores in Maryland have been declining for many years — and not just because schools shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Math and reading scores tested annually have steadily ...

WASHINGTON STATE — In a KOMO News Waste Watch Report, the math isn't penciling out in Washington. Math proficiency scores dropped again among the state's 8th-grade students, according to the National ...

SEATTLE — An annual report examining the decline in student reading and math proficiencies since the COVID-19 pandemic is giving a glimpse into where Washington state stands with two key indicators of ...