As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

Grade 6 pupils are outperforming their teachers in mathematics tests. This is the alarming result of a study by Nicholas Spaull, a University of Stellenbosch researcher. He conducted the study on ...

More than half of city school kids still can’t handle basic math or English, even though this year’s state exams scores ticked up slightly, according to state data released Thursday. While state ...

Math remains a trouble spot for Ontario students according to standardized test results released Wednesday morning. While students continue post promising gains in their reading and writing skills, ...

Provincial math exams for Grade 6 students are changing to gauge if Alberta children’s basic math skills are improving. Prompted by parents’ and academics’ concerns that some students don’t grasp the ...